About Susan
Susan Blanchard is a licensed counselor practicing in Illinois. She holds the Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and the Licensed Professional Counselor credential. She draws on four years of clinical experience to help people who are facing mood concerns, grief, anxiety, relationship questions, and life changes.
Susan speaks plainly in sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings. She adapts conversations and goals to each person's situation.
Background and approach
Her manner is warm and direct, aiming to make complicated problems feel more manageable. In sessions she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and coping skills.
Solution-focused methods are used to set concrete short-term goals and track progress. Susan brings particular attention to issues commonly faced by LGBTQ people, caregiving stress, blended family challenges, and concerns around intimacy and alternative sexual cultures. She also helps with ADHD-related struggles, self-esteem, seasonal mood changes, and career or purpose questions.
Therapy with Susan tends to center on identifying clear steps, practicing new skills, and checking what works. She encourages active collaboration so clients leave sessions with things they can try right away.
How Susan’s approaches work online
Susan often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify patterns of thinking that feed anxiety or low mood and replace them with more helpful alternatives. CBT is useful for depression, anxiety, seasonal mood shifts, and many everyday struggles.She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills are practical tools for managing strong feelings and improving communication in stressful moments.
Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. Susan will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past, then choose methods together and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility to fit work, caregiving, and daily life routines.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois
- Languages
- English