About Susan
Susan Urtz is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She practices in Florida and brings a steady, compassionate approach to sessions. Susan focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel less stuck and more capable.
She works with adults on a wide range of concerns including depression, ADHD, grief, addiction issues, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Susan also addresses family-related topics such as blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, attachment concerns, and communication problems. Her background includes supporting people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the fallout from separation or divorce. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral work with mindfulness and acceptance strategies.
That means helping people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and learn skills to tolerate strong emotions. She uses solution-focused ideas to identify what is already working and build on those strengths. Susan emphasizes collaboration.
She listens first, then helps craft goals that fit each person’s life and values. The pace and methods change based on what a person needs in the moment and over time. Practical matters are straightforward.
She speaks English and offers therapy formats that include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her licensing is LMHC and LCMHC, and she practices in Florida.
How Susan’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their values and take small committed actions toward them while learning to live with tough feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thought and behavior by teaching practical skills you can use between sessions to manage anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment so intense reactions feel less overwhelming and coping becomes more reliable.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Susan collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, lifestyle, and what they want to change. She often starts with brief experiments and adjusts the plan based on what helps most, so therapy stays focused and relevant.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever you are. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera feels better. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options support flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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