Susan Keene
Practical CBT-based support for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Keene uses cognitive behavioral therapy as the main way to work with clients. She looks closely at how everyday thoughts shape feelings and actions. That often includes examining the inner voice that runs on autopilot and learning to change unhelpful self-talk.
Susan writes that she prefers 45-minute sessions and typically checks messages daily except on Mondays or if she is ill. Susan pays attention to how the body and the "animal brain" react when someone is triggered.
Background and approach
She offers simple exercises to help calm that reaction and bring attention back to the present moment. Mindfulness tools are mixed with practical strategies to reduce stress and anxiety. Her background blends clinical training with long personal experience of depression, anxiety, family conflict, and addiction.
Susan is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - practicing in Utah with 18 years of experience. She respects spiritual perspectives without promoting any particular religion. Sessions may look at past trauma when it seems to shape current patterns.
She also addresses grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting, and coping with life changes. Practical skills for managing anger, improving communication, and reducing isolation are common parts of her work. Susan notes some limits from her own experience, and she asks new clients to read and sign a disclosure form before starting.
She encourages curiosity and steady effort rather than quick fixes, and she invites clients to explore classes and resources on the platform alongside therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Susan commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and to try small behavioral experiments. That approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress because it focuses on practical steps you can take in daily life.She also incorporates mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that calm the body and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness helps when strong emotions or rumination keep getting in the way of problem solving. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used selectively to build distress tolerance and improve emotion regulation when needed.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adjust methods as progress is made. This is a collaborative process and methods may change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules. These formats allow people to fit therapy into busy days and to continue skills practice between live conversations. The variety of options also makes it easier to try different ways of communicating and find what works best.
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.
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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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