Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
How Chidale works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Chidale
Chidale Blackwood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and anger. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Her tone is calm and straightforward, aimed at people needing clear guidance during tough times.
She uses a collaborative, person-centered style that centers the client's priorities. Sessions focus on improving communication, reducing isolation, and managing intense emotions like guilt, shame, or anger.
Background and approach
Chidale also supports people navigating grief, identity questions, workplace stress, and major life changes. Chidale draws on several evidence-informed approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy. She often integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Client-Centered methods to follow each person's pace.
These methods help clients learn new coping strategies and healthier ways to respond to triggers. Her practice includes attention to trauma recovery, attachment patterns, and codependency. She also welcomes conversations about spirituality and purpose when that matters to the client.
Her experience includes working with older adults and people dealing with complex grief or long-term relational wounds. Chidale has six years of clinical experience and practices in South Carolina as an LPC. Her approach emphasizes clear goals, step-by-step skill building, and steady support as clients work toward greater stability and meaning.
What Chidale works with
Everything Chidale lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Chidale's practice.
- 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 Chidale lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, anger, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to identify unhelpful thought patterns and change behaviors that maintain distress, which helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer ways of relating and managing emotions, which can support trauma recovery and codependency issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then recommend methods to try. This collaborative process makes adjustments over time to match what the client finds most helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for more in-depth sessions and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for shorter check-ins, brief coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain contact during life transitions.
Questions people ask about Chidale
What kinds of concerns does Chidale address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting and career stress, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and related areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and person-centered, focusing on practical steps and skill building. She blends talk therapy with techniques to manage emotions and behavior.
What is her clinical background and experience?
She holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential and has six years of experience working with a range of mental health concerns, including trauma recovery and attachment issues.
Where is she based and licensed?
She practices in South Carolina and is credentialed as an SC LPC.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She does not work with international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are costs and scheduling handled?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.