About Lisa
Lisa Godwin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 23 years in the counseling field. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for people facing everyday struggles. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she focuses on practical steps rather than labels.
She helps people with depression, anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. She also works with concerns such as ADHD, anger, self-esteem, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include infidelity, jealousy, trauma and abuse, and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Her work is shaped by approaches that keep the client in the lead. Client-centered care means conversations follow what matters most to the individual.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits that change day-to-day reactions. Lisa also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness tools to teach emotional regulation and reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing helps people who feel stuck find reasons to change and take the next small steps.
Sessions are tailored to each person's goals and pace. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental. She aims to create clear, manageable plans and to practice skills during appointments that can be used between sessions.
If someone is ready to make a change, she offers steady guidance and practical strategies to move forward.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses conversations on what matters most to the individual and adapts to each person's priorities, making it easy to use in video or phone sessions where discussion and planning are the core work.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then practices concrete skills to change them. That step-by-step work fits well into brief video sessions or written exercises sent via messaging.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical tools for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. These skills can be taught in session and practiced between meetings using chat or text check-ins to reinforce learning.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods, and adapt strategies based on what helps most. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to keep, modify, or drop as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter space is needed. Live chat and text are useful for short check-ins, brief coaching, or tracking progress between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit sessions into busy days and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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