About Susan
Susan Jentoft is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and major life changes. Her background spans addiction, trauma and grief, along with issues like sleep, eating, and work-related strain.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She listens first, then helps people set small goals they can try between sessions. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at producing usable skills for daily life.
Background and approach
Clients learn ways to manage intense feelings and improve communication with others. Therapy may include mindfulness exercises, behavior-focused strategies, and attention to values and motivation. Susan adapts methods to the situation rather than using a single technique.
She helps people notice patterns, practice new responses, and track progress over time. Susan has worked across many areas, including aging and geriatric issues, blended family concerns, body image, cancer-related stress, codependency, and recovery from substance use. She also supports people dealing with forgiveness, hoarding, and coping after disasters.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. She practices from Mississippi and uses a conversational, respectful style to help people regain balance and move forward.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and coping after trauma.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist follows the person’s lead. This approach helps people feel heard and supported while they sort out goals and next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then recommend one or a mix of methods. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are good for brief check-ins, homework support, or situations when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around life demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English