Randall MacKendrick, LPC

Randall MacKendrick is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Carolina with 35 years of experience guiding people through depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, and major life changes. He combines a compassionate, direct manner with practical therapeutic methods to help individuals build emotional resilience, enhance self-understanding, and improve interpersonal connections.

His work spans a wide range of concerns, including stress and social anxiety, self-esteem and identity questions, communication and commitment issues, family and caregiver stress, grief and separation, feelings of emptiness or isolation, and challenges such as infidelity, guilt, and forgiveness. He also supports clients facing attachment or abandonment concerns, dependent personality patterns, and the search for life purpose.

Randall integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques, client-centered humanistic approaches, psychodynamic ideas, and rational-emotive strategies to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. As an LPC he holds a professional counseling license and applies that training to create individualized plans that focus on realistic, achievable goals. His style emphasizes empathy, respect, and honest dialogue while encouraging meaningful growth and practical change. He provides steady professional insight and supportive guidance for those seeking clearer direction or relief from persistent emotional challenges.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Randall often combines client-centered and cognitive-behavioral approaches to support clients in online therapy. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals, helping people explore values, strengthen self-esteem, and work through relationship or life-purpose questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. He also draws on psychodynamic ideas when appropriate, examining how past experiences and relationship patterns influence current feelings and choices, which can help with attachment, abandonment, and relational difficulties.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process, and Randall works collaboratively with each person to determine what fits best. Together they clarify goals, try methods that match the client’s needs and preferences, and adjust the plan over time to improve outcomes.

Online therapy with Randall is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy schedules, geographical limitations, and varying comfort levels with communication. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, try different session formats, and access licensed professionals without undue travel or disruption.