About Sue
Sue Frazier-Bear is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with twenty years of experience. She offers a calm, respectful presence for people facing anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and life changes. Her approach values dignity and acceptance for each person who comes to therapy.
Sue draws on several ways of working rather than a single method. She uses psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns from the past. She brings mindfulness and breathing exercises for stress reduction and grounding.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques help people take small steps toward what matters to them. She describes her work as individual counseling focused on helping people find meaning and forward movement. She has also supervised trainees and collaborated with psychiatrists and other counselors.
That background informs how she structures sessions and sets realistic goals with clients. Sue has experience with anxiety, bipolar mood concerns, depression, anger, substance issues, grief, parenting stress, relationship and communication problems, and coping with life transitions. She also lists additional focus areas such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, neurodiversity concerns, and end-of-life counseling.
Sessions include practical tools like guided relaxation, breathing practices, and mindfulness exercises alongside conversations that look at past experiences and current patterns. She aims to meet people where they are and work at a pace that feels manageable.
Approaches you can try online
Sue often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices like breathing and body awareness to reduce stress and increase focus.She also uses psychodynamic ideas to help people see patterns that began earlier in life and how those patterns show up now. That approach can help when old reactions repeat themselves and interfere with current goals. Choosing an approach is a team decision - the therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, tracking skills between sessions, or fitting therapy into a busy day.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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