About Susan
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with over 25 years of clinical experience. She practices in Minnesota as an LISW and as an LCSW. She aims to make therapy feel straightforward and approachable for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma, grief, and life changes.
Susan creates a calm and welcoming space where people can speak honestly about what’s hard. She focuses on listening first and helping clients name patterns that get in the way.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a practical pace, with tools people can use between meetings. Her work addresses a broad range of struggles, including addiction, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar issues, and challenges with sleep, eating, or body image. She also helps people with career stress, parenting strain, caregiving burden, and compassion fatigue.
Susan supports those navigating attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, and other complex life situations. Susan draws from several evidence-based approaches to match what a person needs. She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive-behavioral techniques and a client-centered stance to tailor each plan.
When appropriate, she includes skills from dialectical behavior therapy and attachment-based thinking to help regulate emotions and improve connection. People who come to Susan can expect a steady, practical partner in therapy. She works with each client to set clear goals and develop manageable strategies for everyday life.
Her style is direct, kind, and focused on real-world change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will listen to goals and try methods that fit the person’s needs and preferences. Together they adjust techniques over time, combining strategies from different approaches when that works best.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging give quick check-ins, shorter skill practice, or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, New Jersey, Nevada, Minnesota
- Languages
- English