Social Anxiety Treatment in Myrtle Beach, SC
Evaluation and treatment for a lasting fear of being judged or watched, starting from home, for adults in Myrtle Beach by secure video.
Social Anxiety Treatment for Adults in Myrtle Beach
Hope Behavioral Medicine provides social anxiety treatment for adults in Myrtle Beach and across Horry County by secure video, with in-person visits at our West Ashley office in Charleston for anyone who prefers them; we accept Medicare, most major commercial plans, and all South Carolina Medicaid managed care plans except Select Health (First Choice).
CDC PLACES has no measure of social anxiety disorder, so the closest local measures here are loneliness, the share of adults who say they feel lonely, and the share who report lacking social and emotional support.
Social Anxiety Treatment: What the Local Figures Show in Myrtle Beach
Compared with Horry County as a whole, Myrtle Beach has higher estimates for lack of social and emotional support, frequent mental distress, transportation barriers and fair or poor self-rated health, while loneliness and depression are about even.
Against the median of the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, Myrtle Beach sits above the middle on fair or poor self-rated health and below it on loneliness, lack of social and emotional support and depression, while frequent mental distress and transportation barriers are close to the middle.
Myrtle Beach has the seventh-lowest estimate for loneliness of the 34 communities on this site, and loneliness often travels with depression and anxiety.
For lack of social and emotional support, Myrtle Beach ranks eleventh-lowest among them.
Its estimate for fair or poor self-rated health is the eleventh-highest of the group.
Against other South Carolina communities on this site, the loneliness estimate for Myrtle Beach sits below Columbia, Sumter and Orangeburg.
An estimated 15.4 percent of households in Myrtle Beach have no broadband subscription, the sixteenth-lowest share of the 34 communities on this site, and a video visit needs a steady connection on a phone, tablet or computer.
| Measure | Myrtle Beach | Horry County |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who report feeling lonely | 29 percent | 29.1 percent |
| Adults who lack social and emotional support | 22.4 percent | 21.9 percent |
| Adults with 14 or more days of poor mental health in the past month | 17.3 percent | 16.6 percent |
| Adults ever told by a health professional they have depression | 21.6 percent | 21.5 percent |
| Adults who lacked reliable transportation in the past year | 10.1 percent | 7.2 percent |
| Adults who rate their own health as fair or poor | 24.1 percent | 20.8 percent |
Figures in this section come from CDC PLACES, 2025 release (model-based estimates from 2022 and 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data), with the American Community Survey, 2017 to 2021, via CDC for households without broadband; ranks compare the 34 South Carolina communities on this site.
Horry County Figures From County Health Rankings
In Horry County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts 17.6 percent of adults with frequent mental distress, above the statewide 16.7 percent, the tenth-lowest frequent mental distress figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Myrtle Beach the fifteenth-lowest frequent mental distress estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
| Measure | Horry County | South Carolina |
|---|---|---|
| Average poor mental health days adults reported in the past month | 5.3 days | 5.2 days |
| Adults with two weeks or more of poor mental health in the past month | 17.6 percent | 16.7 percent |
| Adults who usually sleep less than seven hours a night | 36.6 percent | 36.6 percent |
| Mental health providers, counted against residents | one for every 554 residents | one for every 437 residents |
| Working-age adults with no health insurance | 17.6 percent | 13.4 percent |
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps builds these county figures from the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2022 for the survey measures, the CMS National Provider Identification file, 2024 for provider counts and the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, 2022 for insurance; ranks compare the South Carolina counties in this data.
Living and Working in Myrtle Beach
Coastal Carolina University, in nearby Conway, enrolled 11,881 students in fall 2025; we see students 18 and older by secure video, around class schedules.
About 9,100 students enrolled at Horry-Georgetown Technical College in fall 2025.
The Myrtle Beach Air Force Base closed in 1993, and its 3,936 acres now hold The Market Common, neighborhoods, the airport and a technology park.
About 18.2 million visitors came to the Myrtle Beach area in 2024, and tourism supports an estimated 82,000 jobs along the Grand Strand.
More than a quarter of the Myrtle Beach metro's roughly 413,000 residents are 65 or older, and it has become the country's fastest-growing metro for older adults.
Myrtle Beach was incorporated in 1938 and became a city in 1957, the year its year-round population first passed 5,000.
Campuses serving Myrtle Beach include Coastal Carolina University (nearby Conway) and Horry-Georgetown Technical College.
Myrtle Beach's economy centers on tourism and hospitality and retail.
Sources for these local facts: wmbfnews.com,hgtc.edu,cityofmyrtlebeach.com,myrtlebeachareacvb.com,amp.insurancejournal.com.
Social Anxiety Treatment for College Students and Young Adults
Seminars, presentations and a new social scene can make social anxiety hard to ignore at college, and students 18 and older can start care from their room.
Cognitive behavioral therapy builds skills step by step for speaking up in class and meeting people, and medication when indicated, decided jointly with the patient, can be part of the plan.
Social anxiety disorder is a lasting fear of being judged or watched that gets in the way of work, school or friendships, and for some people it shows up only when performing.
Request an appointment for social anxiety treatment, call (843) 737-0312, or read about social anxiety treatment by telehealth across South Carolina and in person at our West Ashley office.
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Adults anywhere in South Carolina, including Columbia, Sumter and Orangeburg, can see us by secure video, or you can browse every South Carolina community we serve
Social Anxiety Treatment in Myrtle Beach: Questions
Yes: adults in Myrtle Beach and the rest of Horry County can see Hope Behavioral Medicine by secure video, with in-person visits at our West Ashley office in Charleston for anyone who prefers them, and a video visit needs no ride; for comparison, Myrtle Beach has the seventeenth-lowest estimate for transportation barriers of the 34 communities on this site.
Yes: your first visit and your follow-up visits can happen by secure video from home, and cognitive behavioral therapy, including exposure work, can be paired with medication when indicated, decided jointly with the patient.
CDC PLACES puts it at 29 percent of adults in Myrtle Beach, the seventh-lowest figure among the 34 South Carolina communities on this site, against 29.1 percent across Horry County.
In Horry County, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, 2025, counts one mental health provider for every 554 residents, fewer providers for its population than the statewide one for every 437 residents, the eleventh-highest residents per mental health provider figure among the South Carolina counties in this data, while CDC PLACES gives Myrtle Beach the eleventh-lowest lack of social and emotional support estimate of the 34 communities on this site.
Yes: students 18 and older, including those at Coastal Carolina University (nearby Conway) and Horry-Georgetown Technical College, can be seen by secure video around their class schedules.
Hope Behavioral Medicine is not an emergency service: call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, at any hour, and in an emergency call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.