About Suzanne
Dr. Suzanne Degges-White helps people who are feeling stuck, stressed, or unsure how to move forward. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, and also holds the LCPC credential.
She brings 24 years of professional experience and a practical, supportive style to sessions. She focuses on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. She also works with relationship concerns, intimacy issues, parenting questions, grief, and addictions.
How Suzanne works
Her approach assumes people have strengths they can use to change their lives. In sessions she listens first and then offers tools drawn from several approaches. Clients may work on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, clarifying values, or exploring personal meaning.
She often gives short homework such as journaling or reading to keep momentum between meetings. Her work leans on humanistic ideas that center the client's experience, and she adapts methods to fit the issue at hand. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, existential perspectives, and Jungian thought when relevant.
Sessions aim to boost confidence, improve coping, and increase a sense of choice. Dr. Degges-White practices in Illinois and communicates in English.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and offers steady support for planned and unexpected life transitions.
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What Suzanne works with
The areas below are the ones Suzanne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take actions that match those values even when feelings are difficult. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and habits and teaching concrete skills for mood and behavior management. That approach is often helpful for depression, anxiety, and coping strategies.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, explain options, and adapt methods as needed. Together they decide which ideas and exercises fit the situation and adjust the plan over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling simpler and to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can serve as brief check-ins or ongoing written support between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep continuity when life is hectic.
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