About Susan
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She practices in Minnesota as an LISW and a LCSW and focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She creates a warm, affirming space for people from diverse backgrounds to talk through hard things.
Susan centers sessions on the person's goals and everyday life. She uses clear, practical strategies to help with worry, low mood, and relationship issues.
Background and approach
Conversations often include skill practice, behavior changes, and ways to improve coping during transitions. <brHer work includes support for trauma and grief, struggles with addiction, and challenges linked to identity and intimacy. She pays attention to patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try new responses. That can mean changing thoughts, testing different actions, or learning emotion regulation skills.
Susan also helps with sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and caregiver burnout. She draws on several therapy approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions aim to build stronger self-understanding and steadier day-to-day coping.
People who connect well with her often want practical tools and steady support through change. She takes a collaborative stance and works at a pace that fits each person. If someone is looking for a therapist who listens closely and offers concrete next steps, she may be a good fit.
How Susan’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Susan draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood problems, sleep issues, and stuck routines by teaching practical skills and step-by-step experiments.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small, value-driven steps. ACT can be useful for managing worry, dealing with difficult emotions, and staying focused during life transitions.
Finding the right fit is a team effort. Susan discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as therapy progresses. She works collaboratively to blend skills training, values work, and supportive listening based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video allows face-to-face interaction and skills practice, phone can fit a busy schedule or limited bandwidth, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility to match a person’s routine and communication style.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- 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
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, New Jersey, Nevada, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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