About Suzanna
Suzanna Bagley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 12 years of experience. She greets new clients with a calm, easygoing style and aims to make the first steps into therapy less intimidating. She often uses light humor when appropriate and can be direct when clarity will help move a conversation forward.
Suzanna focuses on practical, goal-oriented work. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
ADHD, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and career concerns are also within her areas of focus. Her training includes a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused approaches, and Trauma-Focused methods to match the work to each person’s needs.
That means she might use structured thought work to reduce anxiety or brief solution-focused steps when time is limited. In sessions she listens for what matters most and helps identify small, achievable changes. When trauma is involved she works to identify triggers and build emotion-management skills.
She avoids judgment and aims to make people feel understood and validated. Suzanna describes herself as a partner in the process rather than an outside expert. She will explain approaches in straightforward terms and can answer questions by message or during sessions.
People who want clear options and a practical path forward often find her style helpful.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Suzanna often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. CBT typically involves identifying painful thoughts, testing them, and practicing alternative behaviors to reduce symptoms.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy when clients need practical, time-sensitive steps. This approach focuses on small, achievable changes and building on what already works to reach clear goals quickly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, concerns, and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods geared to those needs. That collaboration helps shape session pacing and technique so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows short check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options give flexibility so people can pick what suits their routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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