About Susan
Susan Rhodes is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 20 years in mental health care. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices from Texas. Susan brings a direct but compassionate manner to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She describes her style as creative, open-minded, and passionate. Susan uses her wide-ranging work and life experiences to help people begin healing. She works with individuals who want change and are willing to look at their role in relationships and daily life.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps people map steps for healing, complete personal inventories, and set actions that support recovery. She also connects people to resources when additional help is needed. Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, and ADHD.
Susan draws on several approaches to shape treatment. She uses client-centered methods to build a trusting working relationship. Cognitive behavioral ideas help with changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and motivational interviewing supports readiness for change.
Teletherapy is a regular part of her practice and she frames care around each person’s pace and goals. Outside of therapy she trains for marathons, enjoys cooking and day trips, and stays involved in writing and community projects.
How Susan Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Susan commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, building trust, and shaping the work around what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and supported while they decide what to change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete tools to try different responses to stress, anxiety, or mood challenges.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to make changes and to move forward at a manageable pace. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adjust methods as the work progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and in-depth work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling and for fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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