Kendra Woody Simmons, LPC

Kendra Woody Simmons is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Kendra also supports those facing relationship and parenting struggles as well as career and life transitions.

Her style is warm and interactive. She listens without judgment and treats people with sensitivity and respect. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with practical steps to try between meetings.

Kendra draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. She also uses acceptance and commitment techniques to clarify values and skills from mindfulness to help manage difficult feelings.

She works with people facing grief, intimacy-related problems, anger, self-esteem issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include blended family concerns, caregiver stress, substance use issues, domestic violence, and challenges faced by veterans and young adults.

Kendra aims to create a plan that fits each person's situation. She collaborates with clients to set clear goals and practical steps. Her approach balances short-term problem solving with attention to long-term patterns and personal values.

Approach and online care that fit your life

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It often involves practical exercises and homework to try between sessions and can help with stress, depression, and addiction-related patterns.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and build actions around those values. It uses acceptance and mindfulness skills to handle difficult feelings while moving toward meaningful goals.

Kendra treats therapy as a collaborative process. She works with each person to decide which approaches make sense based on goals and preferences, and she adjusts methods as progress unfolds. Finding the right fit is part of the work together rather than a one-time decision.

Online therapy offers different ways to connect that can fit busy schedules. Video calls let you work face to face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a workday, manage a shorter check-in, or avoid being on camera when you prefer not to.