About Susan
Susan Peterman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She works with clients on LGBT issues, intimacy-related problems, and major life changes. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things.
Susan keeps sessions practical and focused. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and coping strategies for intense feelings. <brMindfulness and narrative techniques are part of her work too. She helps clients notice thoughts and reactions in the moment, and she helps them reframe personal stories that feel stuck.
Solution-focused methods are used when a client wants clear, short-term steps to try between sessions. Susan emphasizes a nonjudgmental, open-minded stance. She aims to create a calm space where people can name what’s painful and take small, steady steps toward change.
She encourages practical experiments and clear goals so progress can be measured. With 13 years of experience as an LPC, she brings steady clinical experience while staying down-to-earth. Sessions cover communication problems, attachment and abandonment worries, issues around gender and sexuality, and other overlapping concerns like guilt, shame, or family-of-origin patterns.
How Susan Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Susan often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions so clients can test new ways of coping and see what works in daily life.She also integrates dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. DBT-based skills can be especially useful for strong moods, relationship stress, and learning calmer ways to respond.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Susan will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Progress is reviewed regularly and methods are adjusted based on what helps most.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy schedules and different needs. Video calls work well for full conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can be a simple option with less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework review, or when someone prefers written communication.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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