About Susan
Susan Armes is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She brings 23 years of experience as a therapist and speaks plainly about coping, relationships, and trauma so families can make practical steps forward. She uses a mix of approaches and adapts them to each person's needs.
Sessions focus on clear goals, building useful skills, and examining patterns that keep problems going. Conversations are respectful and consider cultural and religious beliefs when relevant.
Background and approach
Susan has worked across a range of mood and anxiety concerns, including panic, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt, and finding life purpose. Her aim is to help people find manageable strategies for daily life.
Her style blends listening with practical tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change responses. Mindfulness practices are introduced to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
When needed, longer-term patterns are explored with psychodynamic ideas to understand how past experiences influence today. Susan is licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor in the states indicated. She offers phone, video, chat, and messaging options to fit different schedules.
Starting therapy begins with a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
How Susan Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Susan combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to create practical and compassionate online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and helping the client set their own goals, which works well for building trust and clarifying what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thought and behavior patterns and teaches skills to manage anxiety, panic, and mood problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Then she adapts methods over time so sessions match the person's needs and pace in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person work.
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What this counselor works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English