About Susan
Susan Haynes-Carabello is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She focuses on boosting self-esteem and guiding people through life changes. Her approach aims to make clients feel heard and respected in session.
Susan uses a mix of practical methods to help people feel steadier day to day. She teaches coping skills for anxiety and mood, and works to reduce the hold of painful past experiences.
How Susan works
Sessions emphasize clear tools that can be practiced between meetings. She aims to create a collaborative, nonjudgmental environment. Clients are invited to share thoughts and feelings at their own pace.
The work often includes identifying unhelpful beliefs and trying new ways of responding to stress. Susan also addresses more specific challenges such as caregiver stress, isolation and loneliness, end-of-life concerns, and issues connected to military service. She supports people dealing with traumatic brain injury, seasonal mood shifts, and midlife changes.
Her background includes a master’s degree in clinical psychology and extensive post-graduate study in topics that touch on trauma, neuropsychology, meditation, and emotion-focused practices. She blends that knowledge into straightforward sessions focused on practical change. People looking for flexible options will find a range of session formats available.
The emphasis is on collaboration, steady skill building, and helping each person discover clearer purpose and greater self-compassion.
Susan lists 6 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
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and working at the client’s pace. It helps when someone needs a steady, accepting space to talk through feelings and figure out next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence actions and mood. It offers clear strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors for anxiety and depression.Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express deeper feelings and repair patterns that cause distress. It can be useful for processing trauma, improving emotional regulation, and increasing self-understanding. Susan will work together with each person to choose approaches that fit their goals and comfort level, trying things out and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video fits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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