Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
How Susan works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Licensed in
- Texas, Vermont
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Susan
Susan Rhodes is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience in mental health. She holds a Vermont LICSW and a Texas LCSW and brings a hands-on, straightforward style to sessions. Her manner is creative, open-minded, and driven by practical steps clients can use each day.
Susan draws on a wide range of past work settings to shape each plan. She talks with people about what matters most and helps them build simple actions to support recovery.
Background and approach
That may include steps for managing anger, coping with grief, or reducing anxiety in daily life. Sessions are collaborative and focused on doable change. She uses inventories, goal-setting, and clear actions so progress is visible.
Susan mixes conversational work with evidence-based strategies to help people practice new habits between meetings. Teletherapy is a regular part of her practice and she highlights flexibility in scheduling. That option can make ongoing support easier to fit into a workday or busy family life.
Susan also connects people with community resources when that will help. She tends to work with people who want change and are willing to try different approaches to reach it. When she’s not working she trains for marathons, cooks, writes, and spends time with friends, family and pets.
Her practical focus aims to help people move forward, even when change feels hard.
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Susan lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and perspective. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps people make choices that feel right for them. This approach is useful for building self-esteem and deciding next steps in relationships or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is about spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It gives clear tools for managing anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and mood challenges by changing small daily habits and reactions.
Finding the approach that fits is a team effort. The therapist will talk through options and try methods that match a person’s needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative process can include mixing approaches so work in sessions links directly to everyday life.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can support short check-ins or ongoing steps between meetings. These options help people fit sessions into work breaks, travel, or busy family schedules while keeping regular momentum toward goals.
Questions people ask about Susan
What concerns does she help with?
Susan works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, anger, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and parenting concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is direct and compassionate, mixing practical steps with conversational work to build habits and track progress.
What is her background and experience?
She has 20 years in the mental health field and draws on varied work settings and personal experience to shape treatment plans.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a VT LICSW and a TX LCSW and practices from Texas.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Appointments can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are costs and billing handled?
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?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.