About Susan
Susan Ryder is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Maine with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety while helping people strengthen self-esteem and tackle depression. Susan uses straightforward care to help people cope with life changes and regain a sense of control.
She believes each person is the expert on their own story and builds on existing strengths. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused, with clear steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Susan explains options in plain language and checks in often about how approaches are working. Susan draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking, client-centered conversations to center what matters to the individual, and solution-focused steps to move toward specific goals.
She also uses narrative techniques and motivational interviewing to help people reframe experiences and find the drive to change. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns that often overlap with anxiety, including grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions and process behaviors, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and life purpose questions.
She also supports people dealing with first responder issues, seasonal mood changes, postpartum depression, aging and hospice-related concerns. Susan offers sessions in English and provides care through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their timing.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person’s lead to understand what matters most. In this approach the therapist reflects concerns, asks about values and goals, and helps people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That process is collaborative and can shift over time based on what is helping and what is not.
Online formats like video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and have longer therapy conversations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, and ongoing reflection between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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