About Susan
Susan Shouse is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of practice in Michigan. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, or major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at practical steps rather than labels.
Susan offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what matters most. She focuses on strengths and small changes that add up. Sessions often cover coping tools, communication patterns, and ways to manage difficult emotions.
How Susan works
Her background includes long experience addressing grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues tied to parenting, work, and self-esteem. Susan also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, body image struggles, and addiction challenges. Susan draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals front and center.
She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thought and behavior patterns, and solution-focused techniques to create step-by-step plans. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are added when they fit the situation. People meet Susan for a mix of short-term problem solving and longer work on deeper patterns.
She adapts the pace to each person’s needs and prefers a collaborative process. The aim is clearer choices, better coping, and a stronger sense of direction.
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
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Susan commonly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person’s priorities and building on their strengths to reach goals. Cognitive behavioral work offers clear steps to change patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or addictive behaviors.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people manage stress and stay grounded in the moment. Mindfulness can be useful for sleep problems, anger management, and coping with repetitive worries. Throughout the process she aims to match methods to each person's needs, and she collaborates with clients to decide what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let therapists and clients connect face to face, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep momentum between appointments.
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