About Susan
Susan Sturdivant-Miles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 12 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, family conflict, parenting concerns, and coping with life changes. Her approach aims to help people take small, practical steps toward feeling steadier and more capable.
Susan builds a listening space where clients can say what they really feel. Conversations are straightforward and judgment-free. She helps people notice patterns that cause distress and try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
She draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address worries and unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness practices are often used to ground a person in the moment and reduce overwhelm. Attachment-based ideas guide work around relationship and family dynamics.
Sessions focus on concrete skills like managing anxiety, improving communication, and handling parenting stress. She also works with issues such as abandonment, blended family challenges, body image, caregiver strain, and codependency. The work often includes setting small goals and practicing skills between sessions.
Susan meets people where they are and adjusts the pace to fit each person's needs. She emphasizes collaboration and keeps the focus on what matters most to the client. For people navigating life transitions, she aims to make the path forward clearer and more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Susan often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings rather than getting stuck in them, which can help with anxiety and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of responding. CBT is practical and skill-based, and it is commonly used for stress, anxiety, and improving communication in relationships. Attachment-based ideas inform her work on family and relationship dynamics by exploring how past bonds shape present reactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. This means adjusting techniques and pace over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can serve for shorter check-ins or ongoing support. These options help maintain continuity of care and let people connect in ways that match their routines and comfort.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English