About Sue
Sue Herring is a licensed counselor with 27 years of professional experience. She holds LPC and LMHC credentials and practices in South Carolina. Sue focuses on anxiety along with stress, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns.
She aims to help people find practical steps forward when life feels overwhelming. Sue started in the arts and later worked in the restaurant business before returning to college in her forties. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Florida State University and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Troy University.
Background and approach
Those shifts shape her pragmatic and down-to-earth style. In sessions Sue treats each person as the expert on their own life. She listens for strengths and builds on what already works.
Conversations focus on clear goals and doable changes rather than long theories. Sue uses several approaches to match the needs of each person. She draws on client-centered ideas to create a respectful, collaborative space.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify thoughts that keep problems going and to test new behaviors. When trauma or relationship pain is part of the story, Sue adds methods that address those experiences directly. Her work emphasizes short-term skills you can use between sessions.
She supports people through life transitions, parenting questions, identity concerns, and recovery from loss or difficult events.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building on a person's strengths. It helps people feel heard and shapes goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, panic, and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people recognize and name emotions in relationships and heal attachment wounds through focused conversations.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sue will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set small goals, review progress, and adjust strategies as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper work. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, homework review, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Florida
- Languages
- English
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