About Sue-Jacqueline
Sue-Jacqueline Spencer is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical, helping clients build self-compassion and clearer communication. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on small, usable steps.
She draws on 17 years of practice in Florida to support people through life transitions and relationship challenges. Sessions often concentrate on identifying unhelpful thinking, learning calming skills, and telling the stories that shape how someone sees themselves.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of techniques to fit what each person needs rather than a single rigid method. Her work routinely addresses issues like self-esteem, coping with change, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse. She also helps people facing concerns connected to adoption and foster care, abandonment, caregiving stress, and body image.
The focus is on helping individuals develop tools to manage symptoms and move toward goals they set. In sessions she listens closely and helps clients set clear, achievable steps. Progress is measured in everyday changes - sleeping better, managing panic, or speaking up when it matters.
The approach is collaborative, respectful, and paced to each person’s comfort. Therapy is offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription model used for sessions can be canceled at any time, and scheduling follows the therapist’s availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening without judgment and following the client's pace. It helps people feel heard and encourages growth by building on their strengths and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That might mean combining listening-focused work with CBT tools or using mindfulness practices to manage stress between sessions.
Online sessions can make it easier to maintain regular contact while juggling daily life. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging offers brief check-ins and ongoing support. These formats provide flexibility for different schedules and ways of communicating, and they let clients try approaches in ways that fit their routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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