About Susan
Susan Cockrell is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, compassionate support. She offers straightforward help for people facing addiction, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Susan works with issues around self-esteem, relationships, sexuality, and career stress in a down-to-earth way.
She uses approaches that emphasize values, skill-building, and acceptance to make change feel doable. Sessions include talking through difficult moments, learning coping skills, and setting small goals that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people act toward what matters despite hard feelings. Susan also uses client-centered and dialectical approaches to create a steady, nonjudgmental space. That means she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people notice patterns that get in the way.
She supports exploration of identity, boundaries, and communication skills so relationships feel clearer and safer. Her background includes five years of clinical experience and licensure as a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW. She practices in Arizona and brings particular experience with caregiving stress, chronic illness, grief, and substance concerns.
Susan is familiar with workplace pressures, blended family issues, and first responder stress. People who choose Susan get direct feedback and practical steps between sessions. She invites clients to try small experiments, track what helps, and adjust plans as life changes.
The focus is on steady progress and usable tools for everyday life.
Online therapy using values and skills-based approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, meaningful steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy centers the individual by offering active listening and reflection so people feel heard and can explore choices at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will partner with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process is collaborative and may combine techniques from different approaches based on what proves helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills visually. Phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed or bandwidth is limited. Text and live chat allow quick problem-solving, brief coaching, and flexible check-ins between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more convenient and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English