About Sue-Jacqueline
Sue-Jacqueline Spencer is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier and clearer. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel understood and find workable ways forward.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions often include talking through patterns, trying simple skills to reduce anxiety, and practicing ways to communicate more clearly.
Background and approach
The goal is to build self-compassion and steady routines that reduce overwhelm. With 17 years of experience, she has worked with many people dealing with major life changes and difficult past experiences. That background informs how she helps people cope with loss, adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, and attachment or abandonment wounds.
She also addresses body image, caregiver stress, and relationship communication problems. Her work draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy. Those methods are used in practical, everyday language rather than technical labels.
Clients leave sessions with specific ideas to practice between meetings. Sue-Jacqueline uses video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging for sessions. She speaks English and holds the Florida LCSW license FL LCSW SW11371.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair people to scheduling options and the subscription-based session plan.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the person. In online sessions this means the therapist reflects your concerns and helps you set goals that feel right for you.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and teaches specific skills to change them. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping during life changes by giving practical exercises to try between sessions.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and steady emotions. These short practices work well over video or by phone and can be used in 5 to 10 minutes during a busy day.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help you choose methods based on your needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress and feedback indicate. That collaborative process helps make therapy feel useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to use video. Live chat and messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, homework, or quick support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English