About Suzanne
Suzanne Ornelas is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) based in New Mexico with 20 years of experience. She helps people cope with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, parenting concerns, anger, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she focuses on practical steps to make daily life more manageable.
Suzanne adapts sessions to each person's needs rather than using the same plan for everyone. She works with individuals on relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, and stress.
Background and approach
She also offers support for first responder issues, hoarding, and end-of-life and hospice concerns. In sessions she talks through what is happening now and what changes a person wants to make. She combines coaching-style guidance with counseling to build concrete coping skills.
Conversations often lead to small, realistic actions people can try between meetings. Suzanne values plain language and clear goals. She aims to make therapy understandable and practical so people can see progress.
Many clients use sessions to manage life transitions or recover from difficult experiences. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. International clients who speak English may work with her.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Suzanne uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional processing. One common approach helps people process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional charge by talking through experiences and learning coping skills that change how memories affect daily life. Another approach centers on building skills for mood and anxiety management through short exercises, routine changes, and coaching-style strategies to handle stress and low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Suzanne will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they want to address. She adapts plans as progress is made, checking in about what is working and what needs adjustment.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions let people use visual cues and a full conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat provide quick check-ins or ongoing support without scheduling a full call. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and varying routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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