About Susan
Susan Rhodes is a licensed social worker with two decades of experience in mental health. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and provides therapy from Texas. Susan describes her style as creative, open-minded, and passionate, and she aims to build treatment plans that match each person's pace and needs.
She brings experience from many settings and uses both personal and professional insights in sessions. Susan is direct but compassionate and helps people map clear steps for healing.
How Susan works
That often includes personal inventories, actions to support recovery, and connections to community resources. Susan commonly helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, sleep and eating struggles, parenting stress, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns. Her approach draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, and psychodynamic perspectives. In practice she listens for what matters most, explores patterns, and tries practical steps people can use between sessions.
She encourages clients who want to make change even when it feels difficult. Teletherapy is part of her offering to increase flexibility in scheduling. Outside of work she trains for marathons, cooks, takes day trips, and enjoys writing, podcasts, and community projects.
Susan lists 7 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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Susan's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and strengths. In this approach the therapist listens closely, reflects what is heard, and helps people set their own priorities. It often helps with relationships, self-esteem, and deciding on next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Susan uses simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or change eating habits.
Motivational interviewing is a collaborative way to look at ambivalence about change. It helps people find their own reasons to act, which can be useful for addictions, commitment issues, or making big life shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest one or a mix of approaches. That plan can change over time based on how things are going and what the person wants to try next.
Online therapy offers flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls let people have a full face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, notes between sessions, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and fit therapy into a busy life.
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