About Susan
Susan Flynn is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and changes in relationships and life stages. Susan aims to make sessions clear and practical so parents and busy adults can use skills between meetings.
Susan has six years of experience supporting adults through workplace strain, career shifts, and midlife transitions. She helps people sort through grief, family-of-origin patterns, and problems that affect self-esteem.
How Susan works
She pays close attention to issues that commonly affect women and people facing aging or hospice-related concerns. In sessions she listens first, then helps set simple goals. Susan uses conversational techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build more effective ways of coping.
She also works on communication skills so people can speak up and set boundaries with less guilt. Her toolbox includes approaches that focus on the client’s perspective, ways to change negative thinking, and skills for managing emotion and stress. These methods are used to address codependency, isolation, workplace problems, and parenting challenges.
Susan helps clients develop small, practical steps for change. She supports people through divorce and separation concerns, family problems, and the loneliness that can come with major life changes. Her emphasis is steady support and usable strategies rather than lengthy jargon.
Susan lists 7 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building on their strengths. In online sessions this means the therapist listens carefully and follows the client's pace, helping people set realistic goals and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It is practical and goal-oriented, so it works well over video or phone when clients want homework or tools to use between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Brief coaching, emotion regulation techniques, and communication skills can be practiced during sessions and reinforced through messages between meetings. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then recommend a mix of methods. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as needs change. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick coaching, or tracking progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around a busy life.Start online instead of waiting
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