Brenda Cloyd, LISW-CP
South Carolina · 20 years in practice
Brenda Cloyd is a licensed social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction.
License and registration
- LISW-CP, South Carolina
- 4723 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1942952049 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Brenda
Brenda Cloyd is a licensed social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She also supports those coping with trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, and major life changes. Brenda uses straightforward language and a calm presence to make hard conversations easier to start.
Her sessions focus on what matters most to each person. She listens first, then helps clients clarify goals and practical next steps.
Background and approach
She draws on Existential Therapy to look at meaning and choice, and uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape everyday habits. Brenda describes her style as warm and direct. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, build coping skills, and accept difficult emotions when needed.
Work can include skill practice, reflective conversation, and planning for real-world situations. She brings experience with issues such as ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, eating and sleeping problems, compassion fatigue, and recovery from substance use. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, blended family challenges, and first responder stress.
Brenda holds the LISW-CP credential in South Carolina. She offers sessions in English and is available to work with clients internationally through online formats. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Brenda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Existential Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Using existential and action-focused approaches online
Brenda combines Existential Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people who are wrestling with purpose, values, and painful emotions. Existential work looks at meaning, choice, and responsibility to help someone name what matters. ACT focuses on accepting uncomfortable feelings while taking committed steps toward a chosen life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with change.She sees finding the right approach as a team effort. Early sessions are used to figure out goals, preferences, and which methods feel most helpful. That collaborative process guides whether more reflective existential work or skill-focused ACT exercises will be emphasized.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer a shorter check-in during the day, and messaging supports ongoing work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches that best match a client’s needs and schedule.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Brenda commonly help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, parenting strain, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and major life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Sessions are warm and direct. The work combines listening, reflection, and practical skill-building.
What is her clinical background and experience?
She has 20 years of experience as a licensed social worker and has worked with people dealing with trauma, workplace challenges, and personal transitions.
What credentials and location are listed for this therapist?
She holds the LISW-CP credential and practices from South Carolina.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients internationally.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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