About Susana
Susana (Susie) Hernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps adults and teens navigate stress, anxiety, life changes, and ADHD. She aims to build a trusting connection first, so clients feel safe enough to talk about hard things. Her style is down-to-earth and relational, aimed at helping people find more balance and clearer direction.
Susie centers the counseling relationship as the starting point for change. She believes a sense of belonging and a clearer sense of identity help people feel more whole.
Background and approach
In sessions she emphasizes listening, practical strategies, and small steps clients can use between appointments. Her work covers common concerns such as depression, addictions, grief, and coping with transitions. She also supports people with relationship and communication challenges, intimacy-related concerns, and parenting stress.
She brings compassion to issues like compassion fatigue, body image, and codependency. Susie draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to build skills, and attachment-based ideas to strengthen relationships.
Client-centered and acceptance and commitment methods are part of how she helps people clarify values and goals. She practices in Texas and holds five years of experience as an LPC. Sessions are offered in English and Susie works with people from many backgrounds.
Outside of work she enjoys time with family, exercise, and cooking.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and navigating big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It gives concrete strategies that clients can practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and communication; it can help with intimacy, trust, and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest techniques from these methods. Together they decide what to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for quick skill practice, ongoing coaching, or when writing helps someone organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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