About Suzanne
Suzanne Shea is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing addictions, grief, and major life changes. She works with individuals who are struggling with self-esteem, family tensions, and motivation. Suzanne speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She brings three years of clinical experience to her practice and a long background running her own business in sales. That earlier career taught her problem-solving, clear communication, and a down-to-earth approach to challenges.
Background and approach
Those skills shape how she guides conversations in sessions. In therapy, she treats each person as the expert in their own life. Suzanne looks for strengths to build on and helps set small, achievable goals.
Sessions tend to focus on what a person can do between meetings to feel more capable and steady. Her work covers addictions, family conflict, grief and loss, and coping with life transitions. She also addresses related areas such as attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and communication or control problems.
Suzanne helps people untangle patterns that keep them stuck and try new ways of relating. Suzanne earned a Master of Social Work before obtaining her Florida LCSW credential, FL LCSW SW24461. Outside the office she draws on years of real-world experience as a business owner to offer practical support and straightforward guidance.
Practical approaches you can use online
Two evidence-based approaches Suzanne commonly uses are goal-focused problem solving and skills-based work. Goal-focused problem solving breaks larger issues into clear steps and helps people test small changes; it is useful for motivation, life transitions, and managing addictive behaviors. Skills-based work teaches concrete tools for handling strong emotions, improving communication, and reducing stress in daily life.She also emphasizes strength-based coaching that notices what already works. This approach highlights personal resources and past successes to build confidence and steady progress. Together these approaches are applied in a collaborative way so client and therapist choose what fits the person’s needs and goals.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to access. Video calls let people have a deeper face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions or live chat can be simpler options when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions and quick tools or reminders. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping the focus on practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English