About Susan
Susan Flynn is an Illinois-licensed counselor who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She brings six years of clinical experience to focused, practical support that aims to ease overwhelmed feelings and clarify next steps. Susan works with adults facing workplace pressures, relationship shifts, and midlife transitions.
She pays attention to how family history and communication patterns affect daily life. Her approach is especially attentive to issues many women face during major life changes.
Background and approach
In sessions she keeps things collaborative and straightforward. Conversations center on what is happening now, what feels hard, and what small changes might help. She uses a mix of approaches to build coping skills and improve communication at work and at home.
Susan draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to offer concrete tools for managing anxiety and mood. She also uses Client-Centered methods to listen deeply and help people feel understood. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and unsure how to move forward.
Her work often involves practical skill building - such as emotion regulation, problem solving, and clearer communication. Susan helps people spot unhelpful patterns and practice alternative responses. The goal is steady progress that fits each person’s life.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Susan works with individuals seeking support for depression, relationship concerns, career strain, and other life changes.
How Susan’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist reflects what is said and helps clients name feelings and priorities, which can be useful for building trust and making clear goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation and handling intense feelings. It includes techniques for distress tolerance and better interpersonal communication, useful when emotions feel overwhelming.
Susan treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She will work with clients to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and personal style. Adjustments can be made over time based on what is helpful.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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