William Perks, LICSW, LISW-CP

William Perks is a licensed clinical social worker with decades of experience helping people navigate major life changes. He holds LICSW and LISW-CP credentials and works from South Carolina. He offers clear, practical guidance for stress, grief, anxiety, and long-term concerns related to aging and caregiving.

He creates and curates informational resources across online platforms to support people between sessions. That includes a YouTube collection titled "journey associates" and several Facebook groups focused on coping, bereavement, ADHD, and life-stage issues. These materials are offered as companions to conversations in therapy.

In sessions he focuses on thoughts, behaviors, beliefs, and values. He helps people clarify goals and consider realistic choices. Work may include looking back at history and forward to practical steps that fit someone’s life.

He offers an optioned structure called "I AM READY," an eight-session intensive that introduces skills, activities, and strategies. Clients may stop after four sessions if they prefer. The program is intended to provide tools to continue progress with or without ongoing therapy.

Perks emphasizes collaboration in the first meeting, treating the initial session as an opportunity for clients to interview him as a potential therapist. He describes himself as a guide who helps people recognize options and try actions that feel manageable.

His approach draws from several therapeutic methods and is aimed at helping people build practical habits and clearer decision-making when facing stress, loss, health challenges, or transitions.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and still take actions that matter to them. It often suits folks facing life transitions, chronic health issues, or grief where values guide next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete skills to change reactions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest ways to try an approach together. That collaborative process can include mixing methods to match the problem and the person.

Confirm which online formats are currently offered before booking, since the profile does not list specific session types. In general, online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use visual tools, worksheets, and recorded resources the therapist curates to support practice between sessions. If you want the eight-session intensive, ask about how that program is delivered when you start the intake process.