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871 Lowcountry Blvd, Suite 200

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Cassandra Sims, Therapist

Cassandra Sims, LISW-CP, is dedicated to helping adults in South Carolina navigate life’s challenges with evidence-based therapeutic support. She works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, PTSD, and later life transitions, providing compassionate guidance tailored to each client’s needs. With decades of experience in community mental health, Cassandra understands the complexities of emotional wellness and strives to empower individuals through practical coping strategies and mindfulness techniques. Cassandra is particularly passionate about supporting individuals experiencing grief, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and hoarding behaviors. She helps clients process loss, develop healthier thought patterns, and create structured approaches to managing overwhelming situations. By integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), she equips clients with the tools necessary to foster resilience and personal growth. In addition to individual therapy, Cassandra offers couples counseling, helping partners navigate communication barriers, relationship stress, and emotional disconnection. Her client-centered approach focuses on fostering understanding and strengthening relational bonds. She also serves military veterans and first responders, recognizing the unique mental health challenges faced by these populations and providing tailored support to enhance overall well-being. A South Carolina native, Cassandra has been practicing since 1979 and brings a wealth of experience from both community and private practice settings. When she’s not working with clients, she enjoys reading, solving crossword puzzles, word searches, and line dancing.

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Columbia, SC

839-746-6262

115 Atrium Way, Suite 221

839-746-6262

Columbia, SC

2000 Center Point Rd, Suite 2350

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Ashley Childs, Therapist

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Charleston, SC

1422 Ashley River Rd

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Kathryn Higdon, Therapist

Kathryn Higdon, LPC, helps individuals in South Carolina navigate life’s challenges with warmth, expertise, and a focus on meaningful growth. She works with children, adolescents, teens, and adults across the lifespan, providing compassionate care tailored to each person’s unique needs. Kathryn understands how issues like anxiety, depression, and ADHD can impact daily life and relationships, and she partners with her clients to create practical strategies for lasting change. Her approach is grounded in evidence-based practices, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Mindfulness techniques. Kathryn specializes in supporting individuals with ADHD, anxiety, and depression, while also offering guidance for life transitions and women’s issues. She creates a supportive space for clients from diverse backgrounds, including those who identify as LGBTQ+ or live with Autism Spectrum Disorders. What Kathryn is most passionate about is helping individuals who are neurodivergent, including those with ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and AuDHD. She recognizes both the challenges and the unique strengths that come with neurodivergence, and she takes special care to affirm identity, build resilience, and empower clients to thrive. This work is central to her practice, and she is dedicated to advocating for neurodivergent individuals of all ages, from children learning new skills to adults navigating work and personal life. Beyond her clinical work, Kathryn enjoys writing and listening to music, reading, playing board games, and spending time with family and friends.

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Columbia, SC

2000 Center Point Rd, Suite 2350

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Maire Diemer, Psychologist

Maire Diemer, PhD, helps individuals and families across South Carolina navigate emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges with a calm, evidence-based, and compassionate approach. She supports patients across the lifespan—including children, adolescents, teens, and adults—through individual and family therapy at LifeStance Health. Her deepest clinical passion centers on early childhood concerns, women’s health and reproductive issues, trauma, and autism evaluation. Maire offers diagnostic testing services to evaluate neurodevelopmental differences, mood concerns, trauma, personality, and other clinical diagnostic questions. She provides developmentally sensitive assessment and treatment for infants, toddlers, and young children, with specialized expertise in psychological testing for autism, developmental delays, and ADHD.<br><br>In her therapy practice, she offers structured intervention, practical coping strategies, and a supportive therapeutic space that focuses on safety, continuity of care, and long-term resilience. She also supports women navigating postpartum depression and anxiety, reproductive challenges, and associated mood or identity shifts, creating space for healing that integrates both emotional and physical health experiences. Maire incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Mindfulness-based approaches, along with additional interventions as clinically appropriate. For children and families, she offers Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and evidence based-trauma treatments. She works frequently with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, or trauma-related symptoms and provides care for diverse populations including LGBTQ+ individuals, people with developmental disabilities or autism spectrum disorders, and children in adoption or foster-care systems. She offers additional specialties beyond those highlighted here. Outside the office, she enjoys cooking and live music.

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Charleston, SC

4000 Faber Place Drive, Suite 110

Mount Pleasant, SC

871 Lowcountry Blvd, Suite 200

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Lauren Parlato, Therapist

Lauren Parlato, LISW-CP, helps children, teens, adults, and seniors across South Carolina move through anxiety, trauma, and life transitions with steady, compassionate, evidence-based care. At LifeStance Health, she provides individual and family therapy for patients ages 6 and up, including children, adolescents, and teens, creating a safe and supportive space where people can build emotional resilience, strengthen relationships, and regain a sense of control over their mental health. Lauren is especially passionate about supporting young people and families affected by trauma, school avoidance, and behavioral challenges. As a TF-CBT therapist, she specializes in helping children and teens process traumatic experiences in healthy, developmentally appropriate ways while also guiding parents and caregivers with practical strategies that support healing at home. Her work with childhood behavior issues and trauma is rooted in understanding how early experiences shape emotional regulation, self-esteem, and long-term wellbeing. In her broader practice, Lauren focuses on ADHD, anxiety, and depression, helping patients develop skills to manage overwhelming thoughts, regulate emotions, and improve daily functioning. She serves individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those in adoption or foster care, people on the autism spectrum, and members of the LGBTQ+ community, and also offers additional support for other mental health concerns. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based techniques, and family-centered interventions to ensure treatment is practical, collaborative, and tailored to each person’s needs. Lauren has been practicing since 2021 and brings a thoughtful, grounded presence to every session, emphasizing both clinical insight and genuine connection. She believes that therapy works best when clients feel understood, respected, and empowered to take an active role in their growth. Outside of her clinical work, Lauren enjoys diamond painting, reading, listening to music, spending time outdoors, hiking, camping, and strength training.

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Goose Creek, SC

854-246-1088

597 Old Mount Holly Rd, Suite 300

854-246-1088

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Lynn Gilderhus, Therapist

Lynn Gilderhus, LPC, LMFT, helps patients build resilience, restore connection, and find practical ways to move through anxiety, depression, and trauma so they can live with greater stability and purpose. At LifeStance Health in South Carolina, he provides Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy, and Family Therapy for children, adolescents, teens, adults, and seniors, offering care that is both compassionate and grounded in evidence-based mental health treatment for the diverse communities he serves throughout the state. Lynn is especially passionate about working with trauma in all its forms, including military and combat trauma, relational trauma, childhood and developmental trauma, and school avoidance that grows out of overwhelming experiences. He brings deep clinical experience to helping people process painful memories, reduce emotional reactivity, and rebuild a sense of safety in themselves and in their relationships. This focus allows him to support lasting recovery for individuals and families impacted by PTSD and complex trauma. His primary specialties include Anxiety, PTSD/Trauma, and Couple’s Issues, with additional areas of focus available to meet a wide range of mental health needs. He works with select populations such as First Responders, Military/Veterans, and LGBTQ+ individuals, and offers a blend of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, and Couples/Marital Counseling, along with additional therapeutic approaches when clinically appropriate. These interventions are tailored to help clients improve coping skills, communication, and emotional regulation. With more than two decades of clinical practice, Lynn brings a steady, thoughtful approach to therapy that supports meaningful change across the lifespan. Outside of his clinical work, he enjoys spending time with family, reading, photography and travel.

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Cayce, SC

440 Knox Abbott Dr, Suite 400

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Daniel Howell, Therapist

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Charleston, SC

1422 Ashley River Rd

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Ellen McHugh, Therapist

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Charleston, SC

4000 Faber Place Drive, Suite 110

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Chuck Kuhn, Therapist

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Cayce, SC

440 Knox Abbott Dr, Suite 400

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Saquia McNeil, Therapist

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Cayce, SC

440 Knox Abbott Dr, Suite 400