About Susan
Susan Urtz is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 25 years of clinical experience. She is licensed as an LMHC in Florida and as an LCMHC in Vermont. Susan has guided many people through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and other life challenges.
She focuses on practical steps that people can use between sessions. Susan combines cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and acceptance-based work to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a steady, collaborative pace and focus on what the client wants to change. Susan aims to bring steady compassion and respect to every conversation. She listens for a person’s values, strengths, and daily routines, then helps build small, doable skills that fit real life.
This often means working on communication, managing strong feelings, or planning for big life changes. Her experience includes concerns like ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and parenting or family tensions. She also supports people dealing with career pressure, identity questions, and relationship decisions.
People who choose Susan tend to want clear goals and practical tools. She uses solution-focused techniques when helpful and keeps sessions grounded in what the client is trying to accomplish. If someone is ready to try new ways of coping, she offers steady guidance and straightforward strategies to move forward.
How Susan’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching them to notice painful thoughts while still moving toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and behavior change. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Therapy stays collaborative so adjustments can be made if something isn’t helping. Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read visual cues and do longer talks, while phone sessions can work when less bandwidth is available or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer a way to keep work going between sessions or to fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to schedule sessions, maintain continuity during life changes, and try different ways of connecting until the best fit is found.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina, Vermont
- Languages
- English