About Susanna
Susanna Cheatham is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with three decades of experience helping people facing stress and anxiety. She works with concerns like depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, sleep troubles, parenting strain, and career stress. Her approach is practical and straightforward.
Sessions focus on finding what helps you feel steadier and more capable. She sees counseling as a team effort where the person seeking help leads the goals.
Background and approach
She supports client choices and self-determination while offering tools drawn from evidence-based methods. That means she will suggest concrete skills you can try between sessions to manage panic, reduce worry, or improve communication. Her work draws on several approaches including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, existential perspectives, and mindfulness.
Those tools are used to address things like attachment concerns, abandonment, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with guilt, shame, impulsivity, isolation, and finding purpose. Susanna brings a compassionate style and a focus on real-life solutions.
She aims to help people build self-love, stronger coping skills, and clearer priorities. Outside of practice she lives in Alabama, enjoys travel, family time, and caring for pets. With 30 years of practice, she combines steady experience with practical methods to help people cope with life changes and emotional pain.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. A therapist using this approach reflects what you say and helps you clarify goals and values, which can be helpful for anxiety, low self-esteem, and family or relationship concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes short experiments or homework to test new ways of coping with panic, worry, or mood problems. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before, then tailor methods to fit those needs. That collaborative process helps shape whether CBT, DBT, client-centered work, or a blend is used.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat allows quicker check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing short updates and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while still using the same therapeutic tools you would get in person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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