Susan Rhodes
Straightforward care for families and life changes
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, Vermont
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Rhodes is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades in mental health care. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and works from Texas. Susan brings practical experience from many settings and uses that background to guide conversations toward real change.
She keeps sessions direct and compassionate. Susan builds an individualized plan with each person, matching pace and style to what feels manageable. She encourages practical steps, personal inventories, and connection to resources that support recovery.
Background and approach
Susan often focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, and relationship issues. She also addresses challenges such as sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, and caregiver stress.
Her clinical tools include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, and psychodynamic ideas. In conversation she helps people sort patterns, try small changes, and weigh what matters most to them. The tone is practical and honest rather than overly clinical.
Susan values teletherapy for its convenience and flexibility, offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Outside of work she trains for marathons, cooks, takes day trips, and stays involved in writing and community projects. For people ready to take steps toward change, she offers steady guidance and straightforward plans to help navigate grief, recovery, and life transitions.
Practical approaches for online family and life work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. Susan creates space for people to share what matters and helps them discover their own solutions, which can be useful for relationship and parenting worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. It uses small experiments and step-by-step changes to reduce anxiety, sleep or eating problems, and mood difficulties.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find internal reasons to change. It is practical for addictions, ambivalence about change, and starting recovery efforts.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Susan discusses goals, preferences, and practical needs, then recommends methods to try. She adjusts plans over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family schedules, caregiving, work, or health limitations. Susan uses these formats to keep therapy accessible and to support steady progress from wherever clients are.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Vermont
- Languages
- English
Next step
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