About Susan
Susan Rhodes is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years in the mental health field. She brings a practical, direct, and compassionate style to sessions. She aims to build treatment plans that fit each person's pace and healing style.
She draws on a wide range of professional settings and life experience to guide the work. Susan focuses on stress and anxiety along with addictions, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career shifts, parenting strain, sleeping and eating difficulties, and attention challenges like ADHD. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness, and trauma and abuse. In sessions she helps people take concrete steps for healing, complete personal inventories, and set actions to support recovery.
She is both creative and open-minded, and she is comfortable being straightforward when that helps move things forward. Motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral ideas often show up in her work alongside client-centered and narrative approaches. Susan offers teletherapy from Texas using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions are delivered in English and she does not accept international clients. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Outside of work she trains for marathons, cooks, writes, and enjoys day trips with friends, family, and pets.
Her practice emphasizes collaboration and practical steps so people can address the hard changes in their lives.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's goals and perspective at the center. The therapist listens closely and helps people make choices that fit their values and pace, which is useful for anxiety, grief, and relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It uses practical exercises and experiments to reduce anxious patterns and improve sleep, mood, and daily functioning.
Motivational Interviewing helps when change feels overwhelming. It uses respectful conversation to explore ambivalence and build motivation for healthier choices, which is often helpful with addictions and habit change.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which strategies fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as progress is made.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions practical. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and fit a break at work. Live chat and text can be good for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing. These formats offer flexibility to match therapy to a person's routine and energy level.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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