Susan Blanchard
Compassionate, goal-focused support for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LCPC, LPC
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Blanchard is a licensed counselor who practices in Illinois. She holds LCPC and LPC credentials and has four years of clinical experience. Susan focuses on concerns such as LGBT issues, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, ADHD, stress, relationship problems, parenting, and career questions.
She aims to meet people with respect and practical support as they face hard life moments. Susan keeps conversations direct and grounded. She works with clients to set clear, manageable goals and uses straightforward techniques to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills practice, problem-solving, and checking what is actually working between meetings. Her background includes training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy as well as Existential and Solution-Focused approaches. That mix lets her combine skills-based work with conversations about meaning and choices.
Susan explains methods in simple terms so people know what to expect. Therapy with Susan is collaborative. She will tailor the plan to each person’s needs and preferences and adjust when something isn’t helping.
The emphasis is on practical steps, honest conversation, and building coping tools that fit real life. Sessions are conducted in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She holds Illinois licensure details as LCPC and LPC and brings four years of experience to each client encounter.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more effective ones. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and symptom-focused goals and includes practical exercises that people can use between sessions.DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches specific skills for regulating emotions, tolerating distress, and improving communication. It can help when intense feelings, relationship conflicts, or self-harm are a concern by offering step-by-step tools to manage crises and build stability.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what fits the client’s needs and preferences. The work is collaborative and aims to match methods to real-life problems rather than force a single model.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, continue work during life transitions, and use tools like written summaries or brief check-ins between longer sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to each format so progress continues even when meeting remotely.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Susan
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point