About Lorene
Lorene Godbold is a licensed independent social worker - clinical practice (LISW-CP) with 24 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and major life changes. She focuses on women's issues, parenting and intimacy-related concerns, and supports people coping with career strain, compassion fatigue, and illness-related caregiving.
Her style is warm and practical, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes. She listens first and then offers clear steps people can try between sessions.
How Lorene works
Sessions blend empathic listening with focused goals for the problems at hand. That can mean learning stress-management skills, practicing mindfulness, or setting small achievable actions to rebuild confidence and routine. Her background includes long experience in counseling and work with people facing hospice and end-of-life situations, cancer-related stress, and caregiver burden.
She also helps people with communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and finding purpose after major life shifts. The approach is often paced to match where someone is emotionally and practically. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work appear when a client wants concrete change, such as career direction or breaking a difficult habit.
Client-centered and mindfulness approaches guide conversations about self-love, forgiveness, and reducing overwhelm. Across topics the emphasis is on practical coping, clearer decisions, and restoring a sense of self. Lorene practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions in English.
She combines experienced listening with methods people can use every day to manage stress and move forward.
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What Lorene works with
The areas below are the ones Lorene selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW-CP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person rather than labels. It involves listening without judgment and reflecting what someone says so they can make their own choices; this helps with self-esteem, grief, and relationship questions.Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes by helping people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they may try a practical, solution-focused step or move toward deeper client-centered work depending on need.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different days and rhythms. Video is often used for longer conversations and skill work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates and reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent care around work, caregiving, and other obligations.
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