About Suandria
Suandria Houston is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. She offers straightforward support for parenting challenges, family concerns, depression, and big life changes. Suandria writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She centers conversations on each person's experience and strengths. That means sessions start with what feels most urgent and work toward clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Techniques may include thoughtful questioning, skill practice, and mindfulness exercises to reduce strong reactions and improve daily coping. Suandria draws from several evidence-informed approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new skills.
Relationship-focused methods guide people through communication and repairing trust. Client-centered methods keep the client's perspective and choices at the core of each session. Her practice emphasizes honest, calm conversation and practical tools people can try between meetings.
She also pays attention to cultural background and how identity shapes experience. That perspective helps tailor the work so it feels relevant and respectful. With a decade of professional experience and credentials as an LPC, Suandria aims to make therapy feel approachable.
She invites people to take one small step forward and then evaluates progress together along the way.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. In practice this means the therapist reflects what the client shares and helps them find their own solutions, which works well in video or chat formats. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors; online sessions can include worksheets, practice tasks, and short exercises between meetings. The Gottman Method concentrates on improving communication and reducing conflict in relationships by teaching clear skills and structured conversations that can be practiced during sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and real-time conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can provide quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or between-session reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different formats until one feels most helpful.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Georgia
- Languages
- English