About Susan
Susan Arvidson is a Minnesota-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with six years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and trauma. She speaks English and offers therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
Susan focuses on improving communication and reducing isolation. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns and build small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear strategies for managing strong emotions and steps to rebuild confidence after hard events. Her work draws on methods that emphasize values, present-moment choices, and skill building. In session she guides clients to identify what matters to them and then take actions that match those values.
She also uses talk-based methods that center the person’s experience and practical tools to change thoughts and behaviors that get in the way. Susan has supported people through grief, divorce and separation, adoption and foster care topics, and challenges tied to mood or personality differences. She also addresses ADHD-related concerns, anger, intimacy-related issues, and struggles with guilt or shame.
Sessions are designed to fit each person’s life and rhythm. Susan helps clients set realistic goals, learn skills they can use between sessions, and check progress together. She aims to make therapy a clear, steady process rather than something vague or overwhelming.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Susan uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take small steps toward those values, even when tough feelings are present. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and emotions without getting stuck and choosing actions that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is also part of her work and offers concrete tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life, and then adapt methods that fit those needs. Together they check what is working and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people practice skills face-to-face from another location. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick reflections, skill reminders, and flexible communication between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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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
- Avoidant personality
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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