About Susan
Dr. Susan Wise helps people manage stress and anxiety and cope with addictions. She also supports those facing relationship strain, depression, sleep troubles, parenting pressures, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She is a licensed professional counselor with 16 years of experience in Missouri and speaks English and Esperanto. Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then shapes a plan that fits each person’s needs.
Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings and on understanding what gets in the way of change.
Background and approach
Dr. Wise uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance and commitment approaches to change unhelpful thoughts and build meaningful action. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships influence current ones, and uses elements of dialectical behavior skills for emotion management.
She has worked with multicultural concerns and veteran and armed forces issues, and offers support around hospice and end-of-life topics, hoarding, and jealousy. Her framing is client-centered, so the session pace and focus reflect individual goals. Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
International clients are accepted. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps place people with a therapist and then scheduling follows from that match.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without fighting them and then choose actions that align with personal values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and motivation challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going, and it can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and sleep issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can be used for quick reflections or ongoing support between longer sessions. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. These options make therapy more flexible and accessible for different schedules and needs.
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- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English, Esperanto
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