Crystal Suetholz
Compassionate, practical therapy for life changes
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky, Maine, Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Crystal
Crystal Suetholz is an LPCC who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy challenges, questions about sexuality and gender, and major life changes such as divorce or blended family transitions. Crystal aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people juggling busy lives.
She creates an affirming space for LGBTQ+ clients and meets people where they are without judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, clearer communication skills, and faster ways to reduce overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Crystal blends goal-focused work with time to reflect on deeper patterns that keep recurring. Her work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, mindfulness techniques to build calm and presence, and psychodynamic ideas to notice long-standing relationship themes.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is weighing change, and the Gottman Method informs work on communication and trust within partnerships. Crystal brings 12 years of clinical experience and holds the LPCC credential. She practices in Kentucky and aims to help people find practical ways forward rather than quick fixes.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. People who reach out can expect clear goals, simple home practice, and regular check-ins about progress. Crystal emphasizes realistic steps for daily life, whether the focus is parenting concerns, career stress, or healing after loss.
How her approaches translate to online work
Crystal commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers clear exercises and homework that fit well into day-to-day life and can be practiced between sessions. The Gottman Method is used for improving communication and rebuilding trust; it emphasizes concrete skills couples can use during disagreements and after.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus. These approaches aim to give tools people can try right away while also addressing deeper patterns when needed. Choosing an approach is a shared decision and Crystal will work with each person to find what matches their goals and comfort level.If you are considering online therapy, confirm the available session formats before booking since session options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and reduce travel time for appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT exercises, Gottman communication skills, and mindfulness practices to remote sessions so the work continues to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point