Chidale Blackwood, LPC
Guided therapy for practical life change
Details
| Name | Chidale Blackwood |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPC |
| Based in | South Carolina |
| Licensed in | South Carolina |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 6 |
About Chidale
Chidale Blackwood is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma. She writes and listens with a calm presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her manner is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping a worried parent find clarity fast.
Chidale draws on Narrative Therapy to help people tell and reframe the stories that shape their lives. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach skills for managing upsetting thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, doable changes that add up over time. She has six years of experience working with concerns that include grief, relationship strain, anger, addictions, and parenting stress. She also addresses attachment issues, codependency, and the challenges of major life transitions.
Chidale pays attention to how past hurts affect current choices and relationships. Her style is collaborative and person-centered. She helps people name what matters, sort out next steps, and practice new ways of reacting.
The work often includes setting simple goals, trying new behaviors, and tracking what helps. Chidale practices in South Carolina as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor. Sessions are offered in English and use formats that fit busy lives, such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
She aims to make therapy clear and usable for everyday life.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse among the things Chidale works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Gottman Method: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Somatic Therapy: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Chidale among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Chidale directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Chidale directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How narrative and skills-based therapy work online
Chidale commonly uses Narrative Therapy to help people examine and rewrite the stories they carry. This approach focuses on separating the person from the problem and identifying new, more helpful meanings for difficult experiences. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to pursue actions tied to their values. That can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and can guide work on trust, closeness, and communication.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Chidale works collaboratively to figure out what methods fit a person's goals, preferences, and daily life. She will suggest experiments and practical exercises, then check in to see what helps and what to change next.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people talk face to face when they can, phone calls work well with limited bandwidth or when being on camera is hard, live chat provides a shorter check-in option, and text messaging allows ongoing brief support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to use therapy from different locations.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of concerns does Chidale address?
She works with common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and career concerns, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and person-centered, using Narrative approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people reframe stories and build practical skills.
What background does she bring to sessions?
Chidale has six years of clinical experience helping people with trauma recovery, attachment issues, codependency, and life transitions, and she incorporates both skills training and story work in sessions.
Where is she licensed and located?
She practices in South Carolina and holds the LPC credential, which stands for Licensed Professional Counselor.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Costs vary 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?
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