About Susan
Susan Frey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing depression, addictions, grief, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at everyday problems and real improvements.
She typically uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for emotional flexibility and Solution-Focused Therapy for short-term goal work.
Background and approach
Those approaches are chosen to match each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Her background includes work with a wide range of concerns, from panic and anger to eating issues, bipolar challenges, and ADHD. She also addresses relationship difficulties like commitment worries, communication problems, and infidelity, as well as process and substance addictions.
Susan has experience supporting people with aging and geriatric issues and those who are visually impaired. Susan prefers clear, practical steps in sessions. Conversations tend to focus on what is happening now, measurable goals, and small experiments between meetings.
She helps people build skills they can use when stress or old patterns reappear. Clients can expect collaborative planning and regular check-ins on progress. Susan aims to help people find workable strategies to reduce anxiety, cope with life transitions, and move toward a life they value.
Therapeutic approaches applied online for anxiety and stress
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and emotions without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that line up with what matters to them. This approach can be useful for anxiety, grief, and coping with life changes where avoidance has become a pattern.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on practical techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going. It is commonly used for anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and stress, and often includes short exercises and between-session practice.
Susan treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and daily life, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The emphasis is on collaboration, small steps, and measurable goals.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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