About Susan
Susan Hart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 13 years of experience helping people make meaningful change. She focuses on practical steps to reduce stress and anxiety and to improve self-esteem and relationships. Susan speaks plainly and works to help each person identify what is getting in the way of their goals.
Susan believes people often escape pain with habits, substances, or relationships that do not help. In sessions she looks for the patterns and thinking errors that keep those habits in place.
How Susan works
She aims to help clients see what they want and make clearer choices toward it. Her approach combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, with Existential Therapy, which supports looking at meaning, values, and choice.
Together these approaches are used to address issues like depression, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy and relationship struggles, addictions, and coping with life changes. Susan also works with concerns such as eating issues, bipolar mood challenges, anger, parenting stress, and LGBT-related issues. She includes work on self-love as part of helping people build stronger self-worth and healthier habits.
Sessions are geared to the person in front of her. Susan listens for practical steps and small experiments that fit each person’s life. She helps people move from feeling stuck to taking actions that match their values and goals.
Susan lists 2 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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches That Fit Online Counseling
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and short experiments to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with habits and addictions.Existential Therapy looks at meaning, values, and choice. It invites people to consider what matters most to them and how to live in a way that matches those values. This approach can help when someone is questioning purpose, facing big life changes, or wanting deeper clarity about relationships and goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions often blend practical CBT exercises with reflective existential questions to create a plan that feels realistic and meaningful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, flexible exchanges for quick support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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