About Susan
Susan Hancock is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas. She writes in a straightforward way and aims to make therapy feel practical and doable. She focuses on clear goals and everyday steps rather than jargon.
Parents and caregivers who are worn out by stress often find the direct style helpful. Susan has eight years of counseling experience and a master's degree in counseling. She works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship strain, and family challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, divorce and separation, and feelings of guilt or isolation. Her approach is down-to-earth and collaborative. Sessions center on identifying what is most pressing, then building a realistic plan to address it.
She emphasizes practical strategies you can use between meetings and clearer ways to handle hard conversations and strong emotions. Susan has personal experience as a parent of two adult sons on the autism spectrum, which informs her understanding of caregiver needs and neurodiversity. She helps clients translate that perspective into workable routines and communication patterns.
Sessions aim to create a trusting space where people can talk honestly and try new responses. The emphasis is on steady progress, not quick fixes, and on finding tools that fit each person's life and schedule.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that translate well to online sessions. She focuses on brief, practical interventions that help manage anxiety and stress by teaching breathing, grounding, and step-by-step coping skills. These techniques are meant to reduce daily overwhelm and improve emotional regulation.She also uses problem-focused strategies for relationship and family concerns. These techniques help identify unhelpful interaction patterns and build clearer communication and boundary skills that people can try between sessions. For issues like caregiver strain or chronic illness, she emphasizes pacing, realistic planning, and ways to ask for help that reduce isolation.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and life demands. They will adjust plans over time based on what is working and what needs to change.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people balancing caregiving, work, or health needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English