About Susana
Susana (Susie) Hernandez meets people where they are and helps them find clearer footing during stressful times. She writes plainly and listens closely to establish a trusting connection. Susie is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she draws on five years of clinical experience in Texas to guide conversations that matter to daily life.
Susie emphasizes the relationship between counselor and client as the starting point for change. That bond is used to explore identity, belonging, and how those shape choices and relationships.
Background and approach
Many clients bring concerns about anxiety, depression, addiction, or major life transitions, and Susie aims to help them build skills that fit their values and routines. Her approach mixes practical tools with a warm, person-focused stance. She uses methods such as acceptance and commitment work to clarify values, cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking, and attachment-focused ideas to improve close relationships.
Dialectical and client-centered techniques also show up in sessions when they match a person's needs. Sessions can include conversations about parenting, family communication, grief, intimacy, self-esteem, career decisions, and coping after trauma. Susie also addresses concerns like caregiver stress, body image, codependency, and substance-related issues.
She combines clinical methods with each client’s personal beliefs when desired. Outside of practice, Susie spends time with family at parks, working out, or cooking. She aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful, so clients leave with clearer steps to try between sessions.
How Susie’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify their values and take small actions that match those values. Online sessions can be used to set goals, practice new behaviors, and review what worked between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new perspectives; it lends itself to homework, thought records, and skill practice that can be discussed over video or text. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, which can be explored through dialogue and role practice during sessions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Susie collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day life. That may mean shifting strategies as progress is made or combining tools from different approaches to meet changing needs.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy schedules and varied needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and practice conversations, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat provides a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports short updates or between-session reflection. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care, fit sessions into work or family routines, and try different ways of engaging until the best fit is found.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English