About Mary-Suzanne
Mary-Suzanne Bante helps people facing low self-esteem, depression, major life changes, compassion fatigue, and those wanting coaching for personal growth. She is Mary-Suzanne Bante, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan with three decades of experience. Her approach is direct and compassionate.
She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, practical goals. Sessions focus on small steps that build confidence and reduce overwhelm. Mary-Suzanne draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thought patterns.
Background and approach
She blends mindfulness tools to ease stress and build present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods are used to identify strengths and quick, workable changes. She has a long record of work in community organizations and higher education, and volunteer roles that shaped her community perspective.
That background informs how she helps people manage caregiver stress, chronic health challenges, and the emotional fallout of adoption and attachment concerns. In sessions she emphasizes clear communication and practical skills. People often leave with concrete strategies for improving mood, navigating grief or loss, and handling relationship and control issues.
Weekend and late evening appointments can be arranged on request to fit busy schedules. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.
Approaches you can use online
Mary-Suzanne commonly uses cognitive behavioral work to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach breaks problems into concrete parts and teaches skills for mood and behavior change. She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and increase present-moment awareness. Motivational interviewing is brought in when people need help finding their own reasons to change and building commitment through small, doable steps.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She discusses goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past, then adapts methods over time if needed. The aim is to find tools that fit the client's life and make steady progress toward clear goals.
Online therapy through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging makes sessions more flexible. Video sessions allow visual cues and a more traditional conversation. Phone calls can work when video is not an option or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or when someone needs written reflections to read again later. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English