- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LISW-CP
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Brenda
Brenda Cloyd is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and parenting challenges. She brings 20 years of clinical experience and a calm, practical style to sessions. Her work also covers grief, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD, and coping with big life changes.
Brenda uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person. She mixes skill-building with reflective listening so people learn new ways to respond to hard moments.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on manageable steps and real-life adjustments rather than abstract theory. Her background includes long experience supporting people affected by trauma and abuse, those facing career or workplace stress, and people working through family-of-origin issues. Brenda draws on multiple therapeutic approaches to match the needs presented in the room.
She holds the credential LISW-CP, which reflects her licensure as a social worker in South Carolina. Brenda supports clients who are navigating adoption and foster care questions, blended family concerns, substance use and recovery, and the strains that come with caregiving or first responder roles. She also helps people facing eating or sleeping problems and those seeking help with self-esteem and forgiveness.
She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To start, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules based on the therapist's availability.
What Brenda works with
Everything Brenda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Brenda helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Brenda lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small committed actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, or disrupted sleep. It works well for anxiety, depression, and practical problems such as sleep or eating issues.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they select methods and adjust them over time so the work fits the client’s life and priorities.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep that collaboration going. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while using the same therapeutic tools you would in person.
Questions people ask about Brenda
What kinds of concerns does Brenda address?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction issues, trauma and parenting challenges, among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and client-centered, combining calm listening with steps clients can try between sessions.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Brenda has 20 years of clinical experience working with people through trauma, life transitions, workplace stress, and recovery.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the SC LISW-CP credential and practices from South Carolina.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What formats are used for therapy sessions?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does cost or billing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time according to the therapist's availability.
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