Lorene Godbold

Lorene Godbold is a licensed social worker with 24 years of experience helping people through hard life changes. She focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family concerns, parenting, career questions, and women’s issues. She aims to make therapy feel like a practical conversation that leads to real steps forward.

She uses a faith-informed, supportive stance and listens first to what matters most to each person. Sessions mix compassionate listening with clear strategies to manage stress, improve communication, and rebuild confidence. The work often includes identifying small, doable goals that fit into daily life.

Clients commonly bring relationship struggles, caregiving strain, work stress, grief, or a sense of emptiness. She also supports people facing cancer or hospice-related concerns, divorce and separation, and challenges around forgiveness, guilt, or shame. Career-related worries and workplace issues are part of her practice too.

Lorene draws on client-centered methods and solution-focused techniques to keep sessions practical. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people reflect and find internal motivation for change. Her South Carolina practice combines life experience with clinical perspective to guide each person at their own pace.

She holds the LISW-CP credential, which stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice. Sessions are offered in English. To begin, clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

How her methods translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities so they feel heard and understood; it helps when someone needs support sorting out feelings and deciding next steps. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and manage stress, which can help with anxiety, grief, and workplace strain. Motivational Interviewing invites people to explore their own reasons for change and build commitment, useful for career shifts, caregiving choices, or habit change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together they will try methods that match those needs. This collaborative process means plans can change as progress is made or new priorities appear.

Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats are set by the therapist's practice. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten check-ins when time is limited, avoid travel, and reduce the need to rearrange a workday. It can also allow using mindfulness exercises between meetings and applying solution-focused goals right away in everyday settings.