Susan Urtz
Calm, practical help for family challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, North Carolina, Vermont
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Urtz is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience based in Florida. She works with individuals, couples, and family systems to find practical ways forward. Her practice often focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting concerns, and other family-related issues.
Susan uses clear language and steady support so people know what to expect in sessions. She combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness to help people manage unhelpful thoughts and stay grounded in the moment.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are also part of her toolkit, encouraging clients to clarify values and take manageable steps toward change. Sessions are focused and goal-oriented, with options for shorter or longer work depending on each family's needs. Susan aims to treat the whole person, acknowledging life circumstances and cultural differences.
She brings compassion and consistency to conversations about grief, addiction, ADHD, caregiving stress, and blended family concerns. Her approach emphasizes practical skills that can be used between sessions. Parents often find her straightforward style useful when addressing communication problems, attachment or adoption-related questions, and fatherhood issues.
She supports people working through divorce, chronic illness, or career transitions with a blend of coaching and therapy techniques. For those who prefer remote care, Susan offers multiple online formats so families can access help in ways that fit their schedules. She invites prospective clients to consider what they want to change and to begin a collaborative plan for getting there.
Therapeutic approaches for families in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients identify what matters most and take small, meaningful actions in everyday life. It can be useful for coping with life changes, stress, and patterns that get in the way of family relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life actions. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and improving communication between family members.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase presence in relationships. It supports people dealing with grief, chronic stress, caregiving strain, and emotional overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person or family to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can shift over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy families. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, while phone sessions can fit into tight schedules. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, real-time support between sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity and practice skills where everyday life happens.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina, Vermont
- Languages
- English
Next step
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