About Susan
Susan Stever is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with five years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She offers calm, direct support and practical steps for day-to-day struggles. Her approach is warm and interactive, and she aims to make conversations feel respectful and down-to-earth.
Susan uses plain talk to help clients clarify goals and try new ways of coping. She draws on cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness techniques to break unhelpful patterns and build more useful routines.
Background and approach
Sessions often include straightforward tools you can use between meetings. Her background includes work with people who have experienced physical trauma and emotional abuse. She has also worked for several years with the incarcerated population, helping clients navigate pivotal transitions and make practical behavior changes.
That experience shaped how she assesses risks and supports step-by-step progress. Susan avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on each person’s strengths. She adapts conversations and plans to the needs a client brings into the room.
Many people find this flexible style useful when dealing with relationship problems, parenting strain, grief, or career stress. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances empathy with concrete strategies. Susan combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and other evidence-based tools to match the work to your goals.
She works from Utah and conducts sessions in English.
How Susan’s Approaches Work in Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where taking small, value-driven steps matters. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own experience and pacing, offering empathy and listening so clients can find their own solutions; this approach helps when someone needs space to sort feelings and clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to change patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and habit change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which tools to try and adjust the plan as needed based on how things are going.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual cues and a full conversation matter, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging is useful for brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and maintain steady contact without travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English