About Susan
Susan Josephson is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 25 years of clinical experience. She offers straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Her style is warm and respectful, and she focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life.
She uses a client-centered approach, which means sessions are shaped around the person's goals and concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another method she commonly uses to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions usually focus on small, achievable changes rather than long lectures. Susan adapts conversations and plans to the situation at hand. For a parent feeling overwhelmed, that might mean short skill-building exercises and problem-solving.
For someone coping with trauma or loss, sessions may move at a gentler pace and include grounding strategies and emotional processing. Over her career she has also helped people with caregiving stress, relationship and communication problems, compassion fatigue, addictions, sexual assault and other trauma, and end-of-life concerns. She respects cultural differences and considers a person’s life context in each session.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment that matches your availability.
Using Client-Focused and CBT Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the session around the person's own priorities and pace. The therapist listens closely, follows the client's lead, and helps shape goals that feel relevant and doable. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort out emotions and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is practical and skill-focused, often using short exercises between sessions to practice new ways of thinking and acting. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and coping with stressful life changes.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. The client’s feedback guides which techniques stay and which change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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