About Brenda
Brenda Cloyd is a licensed social worker who brings 20 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on common concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, trauma, ADHD, grief, and relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people find clearer routines and better coping skills.
Clients can expect practical conversations that break big problems into manageable steps. She uses tools to address sleep, eating, and self-esteem issues alongside mood and behavior changes.
Background and approach
Brenda also supports career stress, compassion fatigue, and challenges tied to life transitions. Her practice emphasizes a client-centered, collaborative relationship. Sessions typically involve talk, skill-building, and real-world homework that fits each person's life.
She helps people identify values, set small goals, and practice new habits between visits. Brenda draws on several therapy methods to match each client’s needs. She often blends approaches to address emotional regulation, negative thinking patterns, and relationship concerns.
That flexibility helps when symptoms overlap or change over time. Brenda has worked with a wide range of issues over two decades, including adoption and foster care matters, first responder stress, and recovery from domestic violence. She works with individuals who want guidance on rebuilding routines, improving communication, or finding steadier emotional footing.
Approaches for online work and practical coping
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions that match those values while learning to let unhelpful thoughts pass. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change patterns that feed depression. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace, offering steady listening and reflection to help people feel understood and make choices that fit their life.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and personal preferences and then recommend approaches to try. Sessions may mix methods so the plan fits changing needs and real-world progress.
Online work includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can serve for brief check-ins or coaching, and messaging helps keep momentum between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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