About Susan
Susan Yvette Underwood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with twenty years of clinical experience. She helps people who face trauma, eating concerns, low self-esteem, and life transitions. Her work often supports LGBT individuals and those coping with phobias and related anxieties.
She focuses on clear, practical steps clients can use between sessions. Susan aims to improve communication skills, strengthen self-regard, and clarify life purpose. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work with trauma survivors and people living with eating and food-related issues. That experience informs how she addresses shame, guilt, dissociation, and isolation. She also offers support around HIV / AIDS and aging and geriatric concerns.
Susan is familiar with a wide range of relational and identity questions, including codependency, family of origin issues, and topics related to BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture. She uses straightforward conversation to help people name patterns and try different ways of relating. Practical coping strategies are a frequent focus.
Clients learn skills for managing panic, social anxiety, and overwhelming feelings. The goal is to build resilience and everyday tools that fit each person’s life. Sessions are offered in English from Arizona.
Susan brings steady, experienced guidance while helping people make gradual, lasting changes.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Therapists often use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach helps people learn new coping skills and ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and panic; it involves practicing small steps and building skills over time. Another approach concentrates on processing trauma and reducing its impact by identifying triggers, naming reactions, and developing steady grounding tools for distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify what fits best based on goals, challenges, and preferences. Together they try methods, track what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when you need shorter interactions during a busy day. These formats make it possible to keep therapy consistent across changing schedules and locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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