About Susan
Susan Urtz is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She practices in Florida and brings steady, respectful care to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strains, and other life challenges. Her work focuses on helping individuals find clearer choices and practical next steps.
She uses a whole-person approach that blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance-focused ideas. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She helps people notice patterns, test small changes, and build skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Susan values compassion and respect for each person’s background and identity. She listens for what matters to the individual and adapts sessions to those priorities. That makes space for conversations about self-esteem, grief, addiction, career concerns, and LGBT-related stress.
Her practice also addresses family-related issues such as adoption and foster care concerns, attachment questions, blended family dynamics, and parenting strains. She supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, cancer, and losses that come with major life changes. Clients can expect straightforward discussion, practical exercises, and attention to what they want to accomplish.
Susan frames therapy as a collaborative effort to find manageable ways forward. If someone is ready to try a different approach, she will work with them to create steps that feel doable.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for managing anxiety, stress, and the frustration that comes with ADHD. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. That partnership includes checking progress and adjusting tools or focus as things change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face connection without travel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to stay in touch, fit sessions into a busy day, or follow up between meetings. These options make regular care easier to schedule and maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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