About Susan
Susan Josephson is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She speaks plainly and aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed. She focuses on practical conversation that fits each person's needs.
Sessions are shaped around the client’s goals and the issues they bring, whether that is parenting strain, relationship concerns, or coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction. Susan uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to the person in the room. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Those approaches are used together to make treatment concrete and understandable. Across a long career she has worked with people facing trauma, abuse, addictions, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, end-of-life and hospice concerns, aging and geriatric issues, and multicultural or HIV/AIDS related challenges.
The practice addresses both emotional and practical problems. Sessions may include short-term coaching or longer work depending on what a person wants. Susan explains options clearly and partners with people to set achievable steps.
She encourages anyone taking the first step to reach out and begin the matching process.
How therapy approaches work online
Susan uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to each person. That approach focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around an individual's priorities, whether the concern is grief, parenting stress, or coping after trauma.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test out new behaviors. CBT is practical and often useful for anxiety, depression, and managing daily stressors.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and try strategies that match those goals. Over time they adjust the plan based on what helps and what doesn't.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can fit a quick check-in or low-bandwidth situations, chat lets someone send short messages during a busy day, and messaging supports ongoing, brief check-ins. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical steps.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English