About Susan
Susan Dawson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida. She has 17 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, and anger. Her style is direct and practical, focused on real problems and small, steady changes.
She helps people who struggle with worry, panic, and social anxiety as well as those facing addiction or mood disorders. She also addresses relationship concerns like commitment problems, communication challenges, infidelity, and divorce or separation.
Background and approach
Issues such as guilt, shame, emptiness, and life purpose are part of her work too. Susan uses familiar, evidence-informed approaches rather than jargon. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that keep problems going, and she uses Client-Centered techniques to build a trusting working relationship.
Mindfulness practices are introduced when helpful for managing stress and strong emotions. Her experience includes supporting people through trauma, grief, parenting strains, career shifts, and chronic mood concerns. She pays attention to identity factors and life context, including immigration, HIV or AIDS related concerns, and LGBT issues.
The aim is practical progress you can notice between sessions. Susan offers sessions in English and works with international clients as well. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Starting is done by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the service.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Susan often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying the thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety and teaches concrete skills for changing them, which is useful for panic, phobias, and chronic worry. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration so people feel heard while they try new coping strategies.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Susan will talk with each client about goals, symptoms, and daily life, then pick or adapt techniques to fit those needs. That decision is made together and can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets people check in quickly, and messaging supports brief updates or between-session reflections. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, parenting, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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