About Susan
Susan Armes is a licensed counselor with 23 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She practices in Florida and aims to make the first step toward therapy feel manageable. Her style is respectful and straightforward, and she adapts conversations to each person's needs.
She uses a mix of approaches to match what a person brings to sessions. That can include client-centered talk, cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness practices to calm the body, and psychodynamic ideas to examine patterns that repeat over time.
Background and approach
She also draws on solution-focused methods to set small, practical goals. Susan pays attention to cultural and religious beliefs and adjusts plans accordingly. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change, whether that is panic attacks, social anxiety, trouble at work, or the emotional fallout from divorce and separation.
She works on communication problems, guilt and shame, and finding clearer life purpose. Therapy conversations are tailored and collaborative. Susan helps people build coping skills, shift thinking patterns, and test small behavior changes between sessions.
Progress is measured in practical steps rather than labels. People who prefer flexible contact can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and are conducted in English.
Approach and online therapy options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard and supports them in naming goals and making changes that matter to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety active. It uses practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and responding to situations like panic attacks or social anxiety.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and ease anxious moments. It can be useful alongside other approaches for mood concerns and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then suggest a plan. That plan can change as progress is made and needs shift - it is a collaborative process rather than a fixed program.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth is needed, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing short exchanges between sessions. These formats help fit therapy into busy lives and make it easier to keep regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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