About Suzanne
Suzanne Stokes is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 38 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and challenges with self-esteem. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma, addiction, compassion fatigue, and ADHD concerns.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps. Suzanne listens closely to each person’s story and uses that understanding to shape the work together.
Background and approach
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and build new patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her approach when clients want to focus on values and flexible action. Attachment-based perspectives help when past connections affect current relationships.
Suzanne emphasizes collaboration. She asks about daily routines, stress triggers, and what the client wants to change. Then she suggests hands-on exercises and small experiments to try between sessions.
Over her career she has addressed a wide range of life challenges. Those include workplace stress, caregiving strain, substance concerns, and issues tied to identity. Her long experience gives her many practical ideas to offer.
People work at their own pace. Suzanne adapts sessions to what each person needs, combining listening, feedback, and skill-building. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better ways to handle life’s bumps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing tough life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives clear tools to change patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, low mood, and problem behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help when past connection wounds affect trust and intimacy.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Suzanne will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process helps make therapy feel relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is close to an in-person visit and good when visual connection matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging provides short check-ins and flexible ways to reflect between meetings. These options let people keep therapy consistent while juggling work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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