About Susan
Susan Beard is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship strain. She works with concerns like self-esteem, grief, stress, parenting challenges, sexual and intimacy issues, and mood disorders. Susan practices in Mississippi and brings 15 years of counseling experience to her work.
Susan favors straightforward, collaborative sessions. She listens first to understand what matters to each person. Together they set goals and try practical steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
She uses talk therapy alongside structured techniques when helpful. Her approach draws on methods such as attachment work to look at relationship patterns, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, and EMDR to address trauma symptoms. She also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage intense emotions and improve coping.
In sessions, Susan focuses on building skills and insight that transfer to daily routines. She supports people who are dealing with addiction, process concerns like gambling or porn, ADHD, dissociation, gender identity questions, and veterans' issues, among other areas. The aim is to reduce distress and increase day-to-day functioning.
Susan emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where clients can talk openly. She helps people find clearer priorities, rebuild confidence, and plan next steps. Many clients work on practical goals such as sleep, mood stability, relationship communication, or coping with major life changes.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Susan uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, and habit patterns that can be practiced between sessions.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to examine relationship habits and improve communication and connection. This work helps people understand patterns that repeat in close relationships and try new ways of relating.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. Susan will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. The plan can change as progress is made or needs shift, and she works together with clients to find what fits best.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill coaching, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be a shorter check-in or a way to keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English