Susan Sigl
Compassionate guidance for people facing life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Sigl is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 33 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with relationship and family concerns, self-esteem issues, career stress, ADHD, and life changes.
Her work is grounded in practical steps and steady support for people who feel overwhelmed. Susan listens without judgment and focuses on the person in front of her.
Background and approach
She uses clear, direct conversation to identify what is most troubling. Together, she and the client set short-term goals and practical steps to try between sessions. Progress is measured in changes a person can notice in daily life.
Her approach draws from client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening and tailoring care to each person. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, helping people spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions. These methods are used to address things like anxiety, mood struggles, compulsive patterns, and grief.
Susan has worked for decades with a wide range of concerns, including addictions, trauma and abuse, LGBT issues, and family of origin matters. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, domestic violence, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and first responder issues. Her background supports direct, experienced guidance when situations are complex.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Conversations are practical and paced for what each person needs. People who want to begin are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire to find the right fit before scheduling.
How Susan’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. In practice this means the therapist reflects concerns back, asks clarifying questions, and adapts session pace to the person's needs. This approach helps with emotional processing, grief, feeling overwhelmed, and building trust.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavioral changes. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, compulsive habits, and managing stress responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision can change over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people talk face-to-face from home, while phone sessions work when a screen isn’t practical. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and try strategies in daily life.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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