Quick facts: mental-health care in South Carolina
- Medicaid expansion
- Not expanded
- Postpartum Medicaid
- 12 months
- Black population
- 25.1% of South Carolina (Census, 2019-2023)
- State directory
- Black mental-health providers in South Carolina
Black therapists licensed in South Carolina
These are Black therapists, counselors, and psychologists listed on Black Health who are licensed in South Carolina (LCSW, LPC, LMFT, clinical social work, mental-health counseling, and psychology). We do not yet tag clinician gender; if you specifically want a Black male therapist, reach out to a listing directly and ask about availability.
Alandria Mustafa, LPC, LMHC
Charleston, SC
Portia Neat, Licensed Professional Counselor - Associate
North Charleston, SC
Lisa Early, PhD, LPC, LCMHC, NCC
Summerville, SC
Shayla Peterson, LCSW, LISW-CP
Columbia, SC
Asha McMillian, LPC
Duncan, SC
Online therapy platforms reviewed for Black men's mental-health care
Our editors have reviewed these platforms with attention to Black-clinician availability, cultural-competency training, and Medicaid or sliding-scale access. Coverage details depend on your specific plan; verify before booking. Editorial rankings are independent of affiliate payouts.
Talkspace
Talkspace offers therapy and psychiatry on one platform and takes most major insurance, plus Medicare for therapy. It says most insured members have a $0 copay. It doesn't take Medicaid, and it doesn't match you by a therapist's race.
Best for Black adults with commercial insurance or Medicare who want therapy, and medication if they need it, on one platform.
Brightside Health
Brightside offers psychiatry, therapy, or both, plus a Suicide Prevention Program for adults with elevated suicide risk. It takes most major insurance and some Medicare and Medicaid plans.
Best for Black adults with anxiety or depression, mild to severe, who want medication, therapy, or both, with weekly progress check-ins.
BetterHelp
BetterHelp lets you check "Black therapist" as a preference when you sign up, but that is a request, not a guarantee. You can message your therapist anytime and switch with a click. It takes some insurance. Its therapists don't prescribe medication.
Best for Black adults who want to request a Black therapist, message between sessions, and switch easily if the first match isn't right.
Hims Mental Health
Hims Mental Health is an online prescription service for men with anxiety or depression. A licensed provider can prescribe generics like sertraline or bupropion, from $49 a month. It isn't therapy, and it doesn't take insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid.
Best for Black men who want anxiety or depression medication online, will pay out of pocket, and already have a therapist or aren't looking for one.
Cerebral
Cerebral offers therapy and medication management on one platform and takes some insurance. In 2024 it agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle FTC charges over health-data sharing and cancellations, and it settled a federal investigation into its controlled-substance prescribing.
Best for Black adults who want therapy and medication management from one platform and have checked that their insurance is in network.
Mental health and Black men in South Carolina
Black men in the U.S. face compounding barriers to mental-health care: cultural stigma, provider shortages, and systemic mistrust built by decades of documented mistreatment in medicine. Suicide rates among Black men have risen sharply, per CDC surveillance data. Culturally concordant care, including seeing a Black clinician, is associated with better engagement and outcomes in peer-reviewed research.
In South Carolina, access is shaped by Medicaid expansion status, mental-health-parity enforcement, and the supply of Black-trained clinicians. For the evidence base behind our recommendations, see the Black mental health hub and the Hall 2016 culturally-adapted therapy meta-analysis.
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