About Chidale
Chidale Blackwood is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma. She writes and talks plainly with clients and focuses on real changes that fit everyday life. Her style is collaborative and warm, and she aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Chidale uses practical methods to address relationship strain, communication problems, grief, shame, and anger. She helps people unpack past hurts and find ways to respond differently now.
Background and approach
Sessions often include working on coping skills, emotion regulation, and clearer communication patterns. Her work draws on several approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies to change how people relate to thoughts and feelings. Attachment ideas guide conversations about closeness, boundaries, and repeated patterns that cause pain.
Dialectical skills are used when strong emotions need steadier management. Chidale brings six years of clinical experience to her practice and holds the LPC credential, which she uses while working with clients in South Carolina. She frames each plan around the person's goals and daily routines so new strategies stand a better chance of sticking.
People meet her by phone, video, chat, or text-based messaging, which lets conversations continue between sessions. She encourages small, concrete steps and checks in on progress so goals can shift as needed.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Chidale commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance-based strategies in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches people to notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values.She treats therapy as a collaborative process. Together the therapist and client look at goals, preferences, and what feels practical for daily life. That shared planning helps decide which approach or mix of approaches to use and how to pace skill-building and emotional work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and feedback. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, skills coaching between sessions, and ongoing accountability while fitting into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English