About Susan
Susan Briggs is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or worries about relationships. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things without judgment.
She creates a calm space where clients can sort through feelings and make small changes that add up. Sessions focus on practical tools and clearer thinking when anxiety or stress feels in charge.
Background and approach
Susan uses conversational techniques to help people identify patterns that keep them stuck and try different responses. Her work draws on several approaches that fit different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Client-Centered Therapy centers on what the person brings to the room and builds on their own strengths. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interactions with others. Susan also pays attention to issues like caregiver stress, communication problems, guilt and shame, and life transitions such as midlife questions.
She helps people reconnect with a sense of purpose and handle social anxiety or isolation. The focus is on clear steps and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Beginning therapy is framed as a partnership.
Susan listens, asks practical questions, and helps set goals that feel achievable. People who prefer straightforward, empathetic guidance often find her style helpful.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths, offering a respectful space to talk and reflect. It helps when someone needs empathy and support to sort out feelings and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to tackle anxious or low mood patterns. This approach is useful for common anxiety symptoms and repetitive worry.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will listen to the client's concerns, try out methods that fit the goals, and adjust as progress is reviewed. This collaborative stance means techniques are tailored rather than prescribed up front.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper connection, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible, ongoing touchpoints for brief updates, skill practice, or coping check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use approaches like CBT or Client-Centered work in ways that match a person's schedule and comfort.
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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
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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