About Susan
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with 25 years of counseling experience. She practices in Minnesota and brings a calm, steady presence to sessions. She creates an affirming space for people who are worried about anxiety, stress, relationship problems, trauma, or grief.
She focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life. Sessions often include talking through patterns, trying new ways to respond to stress, and building small routines that help sleep, eating, or mood.
Background and approach
She works with people facing career shifts, parenting strain, addiction concerns, or questions about identity. Susan uses a mix of evidence-informed approaches in therapy. She blends acceptance-based ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and attachment-focused work.
That lets her tailor sessions to what each person needs in the moment instead of following a single script. Her style is warm and direct. She listens first, then offers concrete strategies people can practice between sessions.
Many clients use her guidance to rebuild trust in themselves, improve communication, or reduce the impact of traumatic memories. Over the years she has supported people through long-term conditions and sudden life changes alike. She pays attention to both feelings and everyday routines, because both matter for lasting change.
If someone wants a therapist who combines steady support with realistic, actionable steps, Susan aims to provide that balance.
How Susan’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that matter. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and values-based goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to change mood and habits. It often helps with sleep, eating issues, and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns that began early in life and how they affect current bonds; it can help people improve closeness and trust in relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will listen to goals and try different tools to see what fits. She works with each person to blend methods so sessions focus on what matters most to them at that time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversations when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for short updates, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while still using ACT, CBT, and attachment-focused work in practical ways.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
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