About Susan
Susan Arvidson is a licensed counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She provides straightforward support for those dealing with trauma, grief, anger, attention concerns, and problems with self-worth. Susan speaks English and practices from Minnesota as an LPCC.
In sessions she focuses on practical skills people can use right away. She uses approaches that teach coping tools, change unhelpful thinking, and increase emotional awareness. Conversations often include setting clear goals, practicing new ways of responding, and checking what works between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes six years of clinical work helping people manage mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and personality-related challenges. She brings focused attention to issues like adoption and foster care, separation and divorce, and difficulties with communication and intimacy. This experience informs how she tailors each plan.
Susan aims to make therapy collaborative. She will listen to a person’s history, identify immediate concerns, and map out small steps to reach their goals. Progress typically looks like improved day-to-day coping, clearer priorities, and healthier ways of relating to others.
Clients can expect a mix of direct skill teaching and empathic reflection. Techniques draw from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered methods. Work focuses on actionable change while honoring each person’s pace and values.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take action in those directions, even when strong emotions show up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and reduce distress. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time. Online formats support flexible, ongoing care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a busy schedule or work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging offer short check-ins, quick skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to daily life.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English