About Susanna
Susanna White is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience working in Missouri. She focuses on common and persistent concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, anger, and relationship struggles. Susanna speaks English and German and aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and understandable.
She builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about hard feelings and confusing thoughts. Sessions emphasize practical steps and clearer communication.
Background and approach
The counselor encourages small changes that feel doable between meetings. Susanna draws on a few evidence-based approaches to guide her work. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice different responses.
Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas support noticing emotions without getting overwhelmed. Her style is collaborative and conversational. She helps clients set goals and checks in about what’s working.
People can expect to learn coping skills, new ways to communicate, and strategies for managing mood shifts. Sessions may address related topics such as panic attacks, grief, guilt and shame, sexual trauma, communication problems, blended family issues, and first responder stress. Susanna also works with concerns tied to autism spectrum traits, multicultural issues, and co-occurring conditions.
She aims for clear steps and steady progress.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Susanna commonly uses cognitive behavioral methods and acceptance-based ideas to structure online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions to identify patterns that keep problems going and then practices new, more helpful responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings, clarify what matters to them, and take actions that match those values.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and feedback come in.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people share updates or ask questions between sessions and can fit into busy days without being on camera.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English, German