About Suzanne
Suzanne Alley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 21 years of practice. She focuses on practical, person-focused care for people handling stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and ADHD. Suzanne aims to make therapy straightforward and usable for everyday life.
She uses clear, calm listening to help people sort through hard feelings. Sessions look at patterns that cause trouble and build small, doable skills to change them. Suzanne helps clients find ways to manage anger, improve self-esteem, and cope with big life changes.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for people navigating LGBT issues, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career or life-purpose questions. She also addresses compassion fatigue and caregiver stress, and helps people facing mood disorders or bipolar concerns. Suzanne pays attention to how family of origin and identity shape current struggles.
Suzanne draws on client-centered methods and practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused strategies. She balances gentle exploration of past hurts with steps that create immediate relief. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is ready to make changes, and trauma-focused methods are applied when past events keep causing pain.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy lives. Suzanne treats each person as an individual and works together with them to set goals and track progress.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship, helping people feel heard and guiding them to discover their own solutions. This approach is useful for emotional support, identity questions, and exploring what matters most to someone.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thinking and behavior patterns that worsen anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, or anger. CBT sessions online often include short exercises, planning, and homework tasks that fit daily life.
Motivational interviewing helps people build their own reasons to change, especially with addictions, behavior change, or when motivation feels stuck. It uses collaborative questions and reflections to strengthen commitment to goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Suzanne will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. She collaborates on a plan and adjusts techniques based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and fewer travel demands. Video calls are useful for more in-depth conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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