About Sue
Sue Frazier-Bear is a Licensed Professional Counselor with about 20 years of experience. She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk through worry, loss, and life changes. She emphasizes dignity and acceptance while helping clients find practical ways forward.
Her background includes work alongside psychiatrists, teachers, and other counselors, and she has supervised counselors in training. That range of experience shaped how she listens and responds in sessions.
Background and approach
She often uses mindfulness and breathing exercises to help people manage stress and anxiety. Sue draws on several therapeutic traditions to match what each person needs. She uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences affect current feelings.
She also uses compassion-focused practices that encourage self-kindness and reparenting where helpful. In sessions Sue may introduce Acceptance and Commitment Therapy strategies to help clients notice thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. Internal Family Systems ideas are used when it helps to separate parts of experience and reduce inner conflict.
These methods are blended in straightforward ways rather than as rigid rules. She works with adults on concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and communication problems, parenting stress, ADHD, anger, and identity issues including LGBT matters. Sessions aim to be practical, steady, and attuned to each person’s pace.
How these approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that reflect their values. Online ACT sessions often include simple exercises to clarify goals and small action steps to try between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and breathing skills to reduce stress and reactivity; these practices transfer well to video or phone calls and can be practiced during brief text check-ins. Jungian and psychodynamic ideas look at themes and patterns that recur in a person’s life, helping make sense of feelings and past influences through conversation and reflection.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they try options and adjust methods over time to find what fits best for the client’s situation.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and guided exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, ongoing reminders, or notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English