About Susan
Susan Rhodes brings two decades of mental health experience to her work. She holds a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and practices in Texas. She presents as direct and compassionate, and aims to build treatment plans that fit each person's pace and style.
Susan draws on a wide range of settings and life experience to connect with clients. She helps people who want change to take practical steps toward recovery.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on clear actions, personal inventories, and links to helpful resources. Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. She also works with topics such as parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with life changes.
Additional attention is given to adoption and foster care, aging concerns, attachment and autism-related issues, and caregiver stress. Susan uses conversational, evidence-informed approaches in session. She names strengths, helps people reframe unhelpful thoughts, and supports motivation for change.
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented while still honoring each person’s story and pace. Outside of work she enjoys running and training for a marathon, cooking, day trips, writing, and community projects. She brings that same energy and curiosity into the room to help people move forward.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Susan often uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, supportive space where people set the pace and goals for change. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping clients notice their own strengths and choices.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT offers clear tools and steps for managing anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns. Motivational Interviewing is used when people are unsure about change; it helps clarify what matters most and boosts readiness to take action.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods, and adjust as needed. Susan aims to match techniques to a person’s needs, preferences, and pace rather than following a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or keeping momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Vermont
- Languages
- English