About Brenda
Brenda Cloyd is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. She draws on 20 years of clinical experience to support people facing grief, career strain, identity questions, and changes in relationships. Brenda uses straightforward, practical guidance so conversations feel useful from the first session.
Her style is warm and focused. She listens first, and then helps people set clear, reachable goals. Sessions combine real-world skills with time to make sense of painful memories and patterns.
How Brenda works
Brenda believes small, steady changes add up to meaningful progress. Brenda uses a mix of approaches depending on the problem and the person. She may work on thoughts and behaviors, strengthen emotional connection, or teach tools for distress tolerance and acceptance.
The methods are selected to fit each person rather than forcing a single model. She has supported people dealing with parenting stress, substance concerns, intimate relationship problems, eating and sleeping challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her background also includes work with adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, blended family dynamics, and first responder stress.
Clients can expect clear explanations, short-term skills practice, and conversations about long-term patterns when needed. Brenda holds the LISW-CP credential, and she practices in South Carolina while working with English-speaking clients nationally and internationally.
Brenda lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Brenda works with
The areas below are the ones Brenda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them control choices. It helps people who struggle with avoidance, chronic worry, or painful memories to act in ways that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with clear exercises and homework. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood swings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people identify and change patterns in close relationships by focusing on emotions and how they shape connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Brenda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what helps.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into a busy day and to keep a thread of contact between sessions. These formats make it possible to continue steady progress without long commutes or schedule strain.
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