About Susan
Susan Russell is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan with eleven years of experience. She focuses on practical, steady support for people dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, and life changes. Her work also addresses relationship strain, anger, addictions, grief, and sleep problems.
Susan keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. She adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Her aim is to help people build skills they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
She emphasizes warmth and sensitivity in every interaction. Therapy sessions may draw on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and make room for difficult feelings.
Attachment-informed work helps when relationship patterns and connection issues are central concerns. Susan has supported people through trauma and abuse, bipolar mood challenges, parenting strain, and ADHD-related struggles. She also works with aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness, and substance use concerns.
She focuses on tangible steps that reduce day-to-day burden. In sessions she listens first and adjusts pace to match each person. She encourages practical experiments, emotion regulation skills, and clearer communication.
The goal is to leave therapy with tools that fit into real life. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule a first meeting. Susan offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
Practical approaches for online therapy and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward chosen values and action steps that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together and teaches concrete strategies to test new ways of coping. Attachment-Based ideas focus on patterns of connection and communication to improve closeness and reduce repeating relationship hurts.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan listens to each person's goals and preferences and adjusts methods over time. Together they decide which techniques to try, and Susan checks in about what is working and what needs to change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use body language and face-to-face conversation for deeper work. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for quick check-ins, written reflection, and steady support between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting work, caregiving, or health needs into a daily routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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