About Susan
Dr. Susan Gurvich focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She works with adults facing relationship strain, intimacy concerns, LGBT and gender-related issues, career stress, and challenges such as chronic illness, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue.
Dr. Gurvich presents a calm, direct style and aims to build a practical partnership with each person she sees. She holds a LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor - and brings 25 years of experience in behavioral health in Texas.
How Susan works
Her background includes hospital and outpatient settings, where she has supported people with trauma, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and complex family-of-origin or blended family concerns. She also addresses abandonment, body image, and immigration-related stress among other issues. In sessions she uses several approaches to match a person's needs.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take committed action despite difficult thoughts. Client-centered therapy centers on the person's strengths and priorities. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Dr. Gurvich also integrates mindfulness practices and hypnotherapy when appropriate to help with focus, relaxation, and habit change. Her work tends to be straightforward, with attention to what will make daily life easier.
She encourages collaborative goal-setting and practical steps that can be tried between meetings. She offers therapy in English and provides sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions according to her availability.
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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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Gurvich commonly draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside client-centered methods. ACT emphasizes clarifying what matters most to you and taking small actions that align with those values, which can help with depression, anxiety, and life transitions. DBT teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication, which is useful for anger, relationship stress, and mood instability. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and the client's own goals to guide the work and build a trusting collaboration.Choosing the right approach is part of the work they do together. Dr. Gurvich will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Then she helps try methods that fit the person's needs and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls make it easier to read facial expressions and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, short reflections, or ongoing connection between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or other routines while working with licensed professionals.
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