- Practical coping tools
- Trauma and attachment
- Values-focused work
About Chidale
Chidale Blackwood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who helps people navigate strong emotions and life changes. She works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship stress, trauma, and many everyday struggles that can feel overwhelming.
She focuses on practical, compassionate care. Sessions aim to improve communication, reduce isolation, and ease guilt or shame that can follow past hurts. She also supports people coping with career shifts, addiction concerns, sleep and eating issues, and challenges related to identity and intimacy.
Chidale draws on approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Her style is collaborative and person-centered, which means she helps people name goals and choose strategies that fit their life and values.
She has six years of clinical experience and brings attention to trauma recovery, attachment concerns, and codependency patterns. She also offers support for aging-related issues, adoption and foster care questions, and complex grief and loss.
Chidale works with clients who want to explore faith-informed perspectives as part of their healing and those who want practical tools for coping and building resilience. If you are weighing whether therapy might help, she encourages a first conversation to see if her approach matches your needs.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection and trust; it often helps people dealing with trauma, intimacy struggles, and attachment issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes, which can help with worry, mood, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Chidale works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals and situation. She combines elements from different approaches when that better supports progress, and she checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Confirm the session formats before booking so you know what is available for scheduling. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example by reducing travel time, allowing a shorter check-in during a break, or letting someone continue work while using tools learned in therapy. Talk with the therapist about practical needs and scheduling so sessions can be arranged in ways that help you use therapy consistently.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Chidale address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, addictions, sleep and eating problems, career changes, ADHD, and related issues.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and person-centered, focusing on practical strategies and compassionate support to help people clarify values and make steady changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has six years of clinical experience working with a broad range of concerns, including trauma recovery, attachment issues, and codependency patterns.
Where is Chidale licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina and works with clients in that region.
Which languages are sessions conducted in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.