About Susan
Susan Mullen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and to strengthen self-esteem. Many people come to her feeling overwhelmed by life changes, parenting strain, grief, or career uncertainty.
Susan uses straightforward talk and active listening to help people sort out what matters most. She helps clients set short-term goals and build simple strategies that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to center on clear steps rather than long lectures. Her background includes work with caregivers and people managing neurodevelopmental differences such as autism spectrum conditions and intellectual disability. She also assists those coping with communication problems and compassion fatigue.
When grief or major life transitions arrive, she helps people find ways to move forward at their own pace. Therapy with Susan blends a client-centered attitude with evidence-informed tools. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and solution-focused methods to identify practical next steps.
Existential ideas are used when clients want to talk about meaning, purpose, and values. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Work can include coaching-style conversations for career or life-purpose questions.
Susan aims to help people feel more capable of managing day-to-day challenges.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows the client's lead, creating space to talk through what feels most pressing and meaningful. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it offers hands-on exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits that reduce anxiety and stress. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, concrete changes and on identifying strengths and exceptions to problems, which is useful when someone wants quick, actionable steps.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining techniques across approaches or shifting focus as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for brief updates, coaching-style notes, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options aim to make consistent care easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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