About Susan
Susan Ryder is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maine with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She believes clients know their own stories and brings a steady, respectful presence to sessions.
Her style centers on listening and collaboration. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's pace and priorities. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
How Susan works
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy help when people want practical steps to change, and Narrative Therapy supports reworking the stories people tell about themselves. Susan works with a wide range of concerns, including compassion fatigue, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, anger, and ADHD.
She also supports people facing aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, divorce and separation, and hospice or end-of-life concerns. Process addictions such as gambling or problematic sexual behaviors are included in her focus areas. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-focused.
Conversations often start with immediate problems and move toward small, doable steps. She helps people notice strengths and build on them, and she adjusts methods to fit each person's needs. People meet with her by phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions are arranged through an online matching process and scheduled to fit the client and therapist timing.
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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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
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Online support options
How Susan’s approaches work online
Susan blends Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to create practical, person-focused online care. Client-Centered Therapy means sessions follow the person’s concerns and goals, with the therapist listening and reflecting to help clarify what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way, and then tests small changes to see what helps.She also uses Motivational Interviewing when people want to build the drive to change. This approach involves short conversations that draw out a person’s own reasons for shifting habits and then turns those reasons into next steps. The therapist will work together with the client to pick the approaches that fit their goals and comfort level, adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels useful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts in writing and fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it simpler to maintain regular sessions and try out approaches between meetings.
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