About Susan
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She is credentialed as an Iowa Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) and a Nevada Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). She offers a warm, affirming approach for people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes.
Susan helps people sort through relationship concerns, grief, addictions, sleep and eating issues, and work-related stress. She also supports people navigating identity and intimacy-related struggles, parenting challenges, and ADHD.
How Susan works
Her background includes work with complex emotional wounds and long-term coping needs. Her style is straightforward and empathetic. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, learning practical skills, and building self-compassion.
She blends talk and practical exercises so people can try new ways of coping between visits. Susan draws on several therapy approaches to fit each person's situation. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and move toward them.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Attachment-based ideas help when relationship patterns and early losses are central to the problem. Many clients come for help with career stress, burnout, mood disorders, and recovery from trauma.
Susan emphasizes collaboration - she and the person set goals and track progress together. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
Susan lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LISW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, which can aid with anxiety, stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies patterns of thinking that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is often helpful for depression, anxiety, sleep and eating concerns, and mood management.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and patterns. It can help when relationship dynamics, abandonment, or attachment issues are central to someone’s difficulty.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will partner with the person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan can change when helpful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for in-depth sessions and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit busy days or provide ongoing support between longer appointments. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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