About Susan
Susan Jentoft is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of clinical experience in Mississippi. She helps people who face stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and the everyday strains of parenting and work. Susan focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She works in a warm, patient manner and listens for what matters most to each person. Sessions often involve talking through current problems, learning new ways to manage thoughts and feelings, and practicing small behavior changes between meetings.
Background and approach
Susan uses straightforward language and concrete tools rather than jargon. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and long-term mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also supports people with eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career questions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
This range lets her match practical techniques to each concern. Susan draws from several evidence-informed approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. She blends these so sessions reflect the client’s goals and pace.
The focus is on what works for daily life, not on labels. People who prefer a calm, collaborative therapist often find her style a good fit. She welcomes conversations about specific needs and helps set clear, manageable goals.
For those ready to try online sessions, Susan offers video, phone, chat, and text options to fit different schedules and routines.
How Susan Uses Therapeutic Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes; it often helps with anxiety, panic, phobias, and sleep or eating difficulties. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s priorities, which can be helpful for building self-esteem and processing grief.Susan approaches treatment as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals and try different techniques to see what fits best. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when a deeper connection matters, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can be used for quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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