About Susan
Susan Mullen is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado with 18 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, grief, and major life changes. Her work also includes career coaching and addressing compassion fatigue for caregivers and helping professionals.
Susan uses straightforward, practical methods so conversations lead to usable steps. She listens first, then helps people identify patterns and test new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build everyday skills that reduce overwhelm and improve communication. Her background includes long-term work with people affected by neurodevelopmental differences such as autism spectrum conditions and intellectual disabilities. She also supports those handling caregiver strain, disaster-related stress, and the search for life purpose.
This experience informs how she adapts strategies to fit each person's needs. Susan blends client-centered care with structured techniques when helpful. That means she follows the person's goals while offering tools from evidence-based approaches like cognitive behavioral methods and solution-focused work.
Existential ideas about meaning and choice also shape conversations about purpose and transitions. People meet Susan for clear guidance on immediate problems and for slower work on deeper questions. She helps clients practice communication, set manageable goals, and try small changes between sessions.
The aim is steady progress that feels realistic and relevant to daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Susan combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to address everyday struggles. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the person's goals so sessions reflect what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and offers concrete exercises to test new ways of coping.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than assuming one path fits everyone.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls let people connect face to face; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and messaging provide short check-ins, written exercises, and flexibility for those who prefer text-based contact. These options help people access support from different locations and schedules while keeping the focus on practical, usable strategies.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English