About Chidale
Chidale Blackwood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who helps people get through hard times. She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and ADHD. Her work is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping clients find clearer footing and practical ways to cope.
Chidale uses a collaborative, person-centered approach. She listens for patterns in relationships, attachment, and communication, then helps people try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on small, doable changes that make daily life less overwhelming. Her background includes six years of clinical experience working with trauma, substance concerns, intimacy-related issues, and complicated grief. She also supports people facing career strain, parenting challenges, and identity questions.
Her training includes several evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused work. Chidale pays attention to attachment wounds, codependency patterns, and the spiritual or meaning-making parts of recovery. She aims to help clients reconnect to their values and move toward goals that matter to them.
The tone in sessions is respectful, steady, and goal-oriented. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Chidale speaks English and practices in South Carolina as an LPC.
To begin, clients use the platform's matching process to schedule sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting focus toward meaningful action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for stress, mood symptoms, and managing day-to-day challenges.
Chidale works collaboratively to find the right mix of approaches. She will review your goals, preferences, and the problems you bring and suggest ways to proceed together. That collaborative process helps shape a plan you can try and adjust as needed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and try different formats as needs change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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