Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
How Susan works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LISW, LCSW
- Licensed in
- Iowa, New Jersey, Nevada, Minnesota
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Susan
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with more than 25 years of clinical experience. She practices in Minnesota and brings steady, practical support to people facing difficult life moments. Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and anger.
She keeps sessions straightforward and focused. Conversations are aimed at identifying patterns that cause distress and learning clearer ways to respond. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based approaches to help people handle strong emotions and make changes that fit their life.
Background and approach
Susan combines attachment-focused ideas with client-centered listening. That means she pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions and partners that with a warm, nonjudgmental stance. Many clients find this helps them gain insight into long-standing habits and improve day-to-day interactions.
She draws on dialectical behavior ideas when emotions feel overwhelming. That approach teaches concrete coping skills for managing intensity, improving communication, and reducing impulsive reactions. It can be useful for breaking cycles of anger or patterns that hurt relationships.
Sessions can include short-term coaching steps or deeper therapeutic work depending on what a person needs. Susan supports people through life transitions, addiction concerns, parenting stress, and identity questions, among other issues. Her goal is to help each person develop practical skills and clearer self-understanding.
What Susan works with
Everything Susan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Susan's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Susan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small values-based steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing alternative actions to reduce symptoms like anxiety and anger.Susan treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust techniques over time. The work is guided by the person’s preferences and by what proves helpful in practice.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging allow for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work consistently across life changes.
Questions people ask about Susan
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
Susan works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, addictions, and questions about identity and intimacy.
What is her general approach in sessions?
She uses a mix of client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance strategies, attachment-focused work, and dialectical behavior ideas to teach coping skills and explore patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with individuals through a range of life challenges and emotional concerns.
What credentials and region are listed?
She holds LISW and LCSW credentials and practices in Minnesota with licensure listed as IA LISW and NV LCSW.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What formats are available for meeting online?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.