About Susana
Susana (Susie) Hernandez is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps adults and teens manage anxiety, stress, depression, and major life changes. She focuses on building trust first so people feel safe enough to talk about the things that matter. Susie aims to help clients find a clearer sense of who they are and where they belong.
She centers the counseling relationship as the starting point for change.
Background and approach
That means conversations are paced to each person, with attention to connection and understanding before moving into skills or strategies. Susie often weaves a client's faith or spiritual beliefs into sessions when that matters to the person. Susie uses a mix of practical approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws on acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thinking, and emotion-focused work to strengthen relationships and attachment. Dialectical and client-centered methods also guide her when people need support with regulation and self-exploration. Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including relationship issues, parenting stress, addiction, grief, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing body image, codependency, attachment, and blended family challenges. Susie has five years of clinical experience and practices from a perspective that blends empathy with clear, usable strategies. Outside of sessions she enjoys time with family, exercise at the park or gym, and cooking.
Those everyday interests inform her practical, down-to-earth approach to counseling.
How therapeutic approaches transfer to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on what matters most to the person and builds small steps toward those goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses practical exercises to reduce anxious thinking and change unhelpful routines. This approach works well for worry, depression, and many day-to-day problems. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early connections shape current bonds; it can be especially helpful for intimacy, communication, and attachment concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend or blend approaches together. That collaboration helps ensure strategies match what the person wants and can use in their life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling fit different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging works for brief check-ins or ongoing written support. These options make it easier to continue work across busy days, during travel, or from a quiet space that suits the person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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