About Susan
Susan Blanchard is a licensed counselor who brings a clear, practical approach to therapy. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and works from an Illinois base. Her sessions tend to focus on concrete goals and steady progress while remaining compassionate and respectful.
Susan helps people facing depression, anxiety, and stress. She supports those coping with grief and major life changes. She also works with people navigating questions about identity, intimacy, and relationship patterns.
How Susan works
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns in straightforward terms. That includes ADHD, mood disorders, self-harm, and seasonal affective disorder. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, career uncertainty, and questions of life purpose.
Susan is familiar with relationship and family topics, including blended family issues, divorce and separation, communication problems, and codependency. She has additional experience with polyamory and non-monogamous relationships, gender dysphoria, and alternative sex culture such as BDSM and kink. Her style mixes structured techniques and problem-solving with attention to values and meaning.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. She adjusts pace and tools to match each person’s needs and preferences.
Susan lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Susan works with
The areas below are the ones Susan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Susan commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to shape online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with actions. It can help with depression, anxiety, and stress by teaching concrete skills for day-to-day change. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes building skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which can be useful for intense emotions and relationship conflict.Choosing a therapeutic approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that match those needs. Over the first few sessions Susan adjusts techniques based on what helps most, combining skills training with conversations about values and meaning when appropriate.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video gives face-to-face interaction, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited or to fit a work break, and text or chat are useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options help people find a rhythm that works for their schedule and daily routine.
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