About Susan
Dr. Susan Eaton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She has 28 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and stress.
She speaks English and works with adults facing a wide range of life challenges. Her approach is down-to-earth and interactive. Sessions focus on the issues a person brings right now.
She listens without labels and looks for practical steps that can fit into daily life.
Background and approach
Dr. Eaton draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns of thought and behavior that maintain anxiety or low mood. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values.
She adds client-centered and emotionally focused approaches to strengthen understanding and connection around relationship or intimacy concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when people need tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Many people come for help after trauma, substance use struggles, or big life changes.
Dr. Eaton often addresses co-occurring issues like grief, caregiver stress, or family-of-origin patterns. Work in sessions blends talk, skills practice, and goal-setting so people can test new ways of coping between meetings.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps even when anxiety or painful feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, offering a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people to make sense of their difficulties and decide on next steps.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit best, based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences. That choice can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow quick updates, journaling between sessions, or steady support when writing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try different ways of working without added travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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