Susana (Susie) Hernandez
Support for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susana
Susana (Susie) Hernandez is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people improve family connections and parenting challenges. She speaks plainly and aims to build a trusting relationship first. Susie works with adults and teens on issues like anxiety, depression, life transitions, addiction, and parenting concerns.
Her sessions often include practical skills and real-life problem solving so families can communicate better and cope with stress. Susie centers the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change.
Background and approach
She believes trust helps people open up and start healing. She integrates a client's faith and spiritual values when it fits the person’s goals and beliefs. Her approach mixes talk therapy with tools for daily life.
She draws from cognitive-behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients focus on values and actions. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationships and parenting patterns.
Dialectical behavior strategies are used for emotional regulation and coping skills. Sessions are straightforward and focused on skills clients can practice between meetings. Susie holds a Texas LPC 83465 and has five years of clinical experience.
She works with people in Texas and accepts international clients. Outside of work she enjoys time with family, cooking, and getting outdoors or exercising in the park or gym.
Therapeutic approaches suited for online family and parenting work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can help with stress, anxiety, and life transitions by clarifying what matters and building small, consistent steps toward those values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and change behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and skill-based work like communication and parenting strategies.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current family dynamics and parenting. It can guide work on connection, trust, and changing repeating cycles in relationships.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, test techniques, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Together they decide which tools fit the person's needs and family situation.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These options allow people to participate from home, manage busy schedules, and use messaging for quick check-ins or practice between sessions. Licensed professionals can combine these formats to match learning styles and family routines, making therapy easier to fit into everyday life.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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