About Susan
Susan Jordan-Kertzner helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and career concerns. She also supports those dealing with grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and life transitions. Susan practices with an affirming, respectful approach aimed at real change.
Susan is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - with 19 years of clinical experience in Colorado. She combines practical, skills-based work with attention to how relationships and attachment shape feelings and behavior.
How Susan works
Sessions are interactive and focused on what the client wants to accomplish. Her approach pulls from cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help clients clarify values and take meaningful steps.
For people who feel stuck in repeating patterns, attachment-focused work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships. Susan weaves in techniques drawn from dialectical behavior therapy to build distress tolerance and emotion regulation. She aims to create simple, usable tools clients can practice between sessions.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Clients can expect a collaborative process that names problems plainly and sets small goals. Susan also offers coaching-style work for career or life-purpose concerns, helping people turn insight into action.
She welcomes conversations about identity, including LGBT-related matters. Sessions are available in English and Susan accepts international clients. She works online through several formats so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
Susan lists 14 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)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Colorado |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take small, values-based steps even when emotions are hard. It tends to be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns show up now and helps people change how they relate to others and to themselves. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. Together they will choose or blend methods so sessions feel relevant and doable for the person seeking support.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let conversations feel more like an in-person session, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give a flexible option for brief updates, coaching-style feedback, or work between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and help people keep steady progress without long commutes.
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