About Randall
Randall MacKendrick is a licensed professional counselor with 35 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship trouble, and low self-esteem. He works with clients who are coping with life changes and looking for clearer direction and greater emotional balance.
Randall uses straightforward conversation to help clients understand what is happening for them. He draws on client-centered skills to listen closely and build trust.
Background and approach
He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes. His work includes attention to deeper patterns that come from early attachment and relationship history. That perspective can help people who struggle with abandonment, dependent behavior, or repeated conflict.
He also addresses issues such as guilt, shame, infidelity, and the stress caregivers often face. Sessions are aimed at small, manageable goals. He often combines short-term solution-focused steps with longer conversations about life purpose and meaning.
Communication skills, managing fear and isolation, and rebuilding self-worth are frequent topics in therapy. Randall practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions in English. He approaches each person as an individual and adapts methods to match their needs and pace.
He aims to help people feel more capable, more connected, and more able to move forward.
How his approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on respectful listening and helping people find their own answers. In practice he listens closely, reflects what he hears, and helps clients set goals that feel right for them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. He uses simple CBT tools to spot unhelpful thinking, test new ideas, and practice different responses to anxiety or low mood.
Psychodynamic ideas are used to notice repeated patterns from past relationships. Talking about these patterns can clarify why someone feels stuck and open up new choices for relationships and self-understanding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with each person to blend methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That means adjusting the pace and tools as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is low, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work consistently.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English