Chidale Blackwood, LPC
South Carolina · 6 years in practice
Chidale Blackwood is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LPC, South Carolina
- 8599 · expires August 2027
- NPI
- 1578626750 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Chidale
Chidale Blackwood is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers calm, practical support for daily struggles and strong emotions. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making small shifts that add up over time.
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people better understand and respond to core feelings in relationships and personal challenges. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help clients build values-driven actions and safer emotional bonds.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and focused on what matters most to each person. Chidale works with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, anger, addictions, identity questions, and parenting stress. She pays attention to patterns like codependency, attachment wounds, and communication difficulties that often keep people stuck.
The work can include learning new ways to name feelings, practicing different responses, and setting realistic goals. Her counseling blends client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral approaches when useful. That can mean clarifying unhelpful thinking, experimenting with new behaviors, or developing coping strategies for sleep, eating, or workplace strain.
She aims to make therapy useful and relevant to day-to-day life. Chidale brings six years of professional experience as an LPC. She meets people where they are and respects each person’s background and pace.
If someone wants steady, collaborative support for emotional challenges, she offers a thoughtful, grounded approach.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Chidale lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- 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 names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How emotion-focused and acceptance approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify core emotions and change unhelpful patterns in relationships and personal life. It focuses on the moment-to-moment feelings that drive reactions and helps people respond differently to emotional triggers.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then taking actions that match personal values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to concerns, goals, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Clients and therapist adjust the plan together as progress unfolds, blending emotion-focused work with acceptance and behavioral tools when useful.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into work breaks, and live chat or text-based messaging provide short check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into daily routines and keep momentum between sessions.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns can be addressed in sessions?
Chidale works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and career concerns, sleep and eating problems, and related challenges such as ADHD and bipolar mood concerns.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The approach is collaborative and person-centered, combining Emotionally-Focused Therapy with acceptance-based and cognitive-behavioral tools to help clients name feelings and try practical changes.
What background and experience does the therapist have?
Chidale has six years of clinical experience working with a broad range of emotional and behavioral concerns, including attachment issues, codependency, trauma recovery, and life transitions.
Where is the therapist licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in South Carolina.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available for online work?
Clients can meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on their preference and needs.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin the process of working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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