Sue-Jacqueline Spencer, LCSW

Sue-Jacqueline Spencer is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She focuses on supporting self-esteem, trauma recovery, and everyday coping skills in a calm, down-to-earth way.

Sue-Jacqueline uses simple, practical steps to help people feel steadier day to day. She listens first, then helps clients build clearer communication habits and more self-compassion. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs rather than a fixed script.

Over 17 years of work in Florida, she has supported people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and aging and geriatric issues. She brings experience helping with attachment concerns, body image, and the fallout from natural or human-caused disasters.

Her clinical approaches include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative therapy. These methods are used to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and reframe difficult stories.

Sue-Jacqueline emphasizes practical tools and small steps that fit into daily life. She helps people reconnect with purpose, face guilt and shame, and build resilience without pressure. To begin, people are invited to describe what matters most to them and set goals that feel realistic.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Sue-Jacqueline often draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and choose goals that fit their life.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks issues into small, testable steps.

Mindfulness practices are incorporated to build attention to the present moment and to reduce reactivity. These techniques can help with overwhelm, anxiety, and recovering from trauma by teaching simple grounding and breathing skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past. From there she and the client will try methods that feel most useful and adjust as needed.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, or remove travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to remote sessions so tools and practice tasks are still usable in everyday life.