Suzanne Stokes
Compassionate, experienced counselor for life challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Suzanne
Suzanne Stokes is a licensed mental health counselor with 38 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with self-esteem. She also supports those facing parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma, and addiction-related problems.
Suzanne practices in Florida and works in English. She uses straightforward, practical conversations to help clients find what works. Sessions focus on understanding feelings and trying small, doable changes.
Suzanne draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people make choices that match their values. Her background includes long clinical experience supporting a wide range of concerns. That experience informs flexible choices about treatment, so sessions can be steady skills work or deeper exploration of attachment and meaning.
She emphasizes listening first, then building steps forward together. Therapy rarely follows one script. Suzanne blends client-centered listening with practical tools from CBT and ACT.
She helps clients notice patterns, practice new responses, and set achievable goals. The tone in sessions is calm, direct, and focused on real-life changes. People seeking help can expect a practical partnership.
Suzanne aims to make therapy understandable and relevant to daily life. She offers several online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It helps clients clarify what matters and take small actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. This hands-on work helps reduce worry, change reactive behaviors, and build coping skills for stress and mood concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Suzanne collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit best based on their goals and situation. The plan can change as needs change, mixing listening, skills practice, and deeper exploration.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, while phone, live chat, and text messaging provide alternatives when schedules or comfort make those better options. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit sessions into real 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point