Lisa Godwin

Lisa Godwin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with 23 years of counseling experience. She brings a warm, interactive manner to sessions and aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Lisa avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life.

Over her career she has worked in different clinical settings and provided individual, couples, group, and family therapy. She has helped people facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addictions, ADHD, and stress. Lisa has also supported people who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse.

Her approach blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior methods. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing, and adapts these tools to each person’s goals. Sessions are collaborative, with an emphasis on clear skills and doable steps.

Lisa has experience addressing intimacy issues, infidelity, jealousy, and the effects of life changes. She also works with seasonal affective disorder and issues around self-esteem and coping. Her background includes Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for caregivers and young children with behavioral or emotional challenges.

People who prefer straightforward, respectful conversations about real problems tend to do well with her style. She invites those ready to take steps toward change to start with a short matching process and plan the next steps together.

How Lisa’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It means the therapist follows what matters most to the client and shapes sessions around their goals. This approach is helpful for people who want a collaborative, respectful tone in therapy.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches specific skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, like distress-tolerance and emotion regulation techniques.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will help determine which methods fit your needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is made together and can be adjusted over time as priorities change.

Confirm current session options before booking because formats are not detailed in the biography. Online therapy can make scheduling easier and reduce travel time, which helps fit sessions into busy days. It can also allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, or let people choose meetings that don’t require being on camera. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and DBT tools to work well in virtual sessions, focusing on practical skills you can use between meetings.