Lisa Godwin, LPC

Lisa Godwin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with 23 years in the counseling field. She brings steady experience from varied clinical settings and aims to help people facing relationship and family challenges. Her tone is warm and respectful, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.

Over the years she has worked in individual, couples, group, and family therapy settings. She has supported people dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, ADHD, and trauma or emotional abuse. Relationship issues, intimacy concerns, infidelity, jealousy, and parenting strains are also areas she often addresses.

Her style is interactive and person-focused. Sessions tend to be collaborative conversations where goals and next steps are agreed on together. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats people with sensitivity and respect.

In practice she draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix is used to help with emotion regulation, problem solving, and changing unhelpful patterns that get in the way of relationships and daily life.

She has particular experience supporting caregivers with young children and has used parent-child work for behavioral and emotional challenges in early childhood. Lisa matches the plan to each person’s needs and adjusts as therapy progresses. If someone is ready to make changes, she offers steady guidance and practical tools.

Approaches that guide online sessions and goal work

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps people set goals that feel meaningful. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort through relationship or parenting concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and builds concrete skills to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship patterns that keep repeating.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and better interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with anger, intense reactions, and relationship conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try strategies and adjust the plan based on what helps most.

Confirm available session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a workday, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals can use these sessions to teach skills, rehearse conversations, and track progress between meetings.