Susan Rhodes, LICSW, LCSW

Susan Rhodes is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years in mental health. She brings curiosity, energy, and direct compassion to each session. Her style blends creativity with a practical focus on real steps forward. She aims to build a treatment plan that fits each person's pace and needs.

Susan draws on varied work across settings to shape how she listens and responds. She asks clear questions and uses both personal and professional experience to help people start healing. Sessions often focus on concrete actions, personal inventories, and connections to community resources.

She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addiction, and relationship or intimacy issues. Susan also supports concerns linked to parenting, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, ADHD, and chronic illness. Her approach suits people who want change and are ready to explore their role in relationships.

In practice she uses a mix of client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral work, motivational interviewing, narrative methods, and psychodynamic ideas. Those tools are used to identify patterns, set goals, and try new strategies between sessions. The focus is on practical steps that can be tested and adjusted.

Susan offers teletherapy from Texas and emphasizes flexibility in scheduling. Outside of clinical work she trains for marathons, writes, and enjoys day trips with friends, family, and pets. She aims to model change and walk alongside people as they make progress.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Susan uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in straightforward ways. Client-centered work focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people set their own goals. It helps when someone needs a calm space to sort thoughts and decide what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.

She also uses motivational interviewing to support change. That approach helps people weigh pros and cons, find internal motivation, and make step-by-step plans for recovery from things like substance use or unhealthy patterns. These methods are shared and adapted to fit each person's needs and goals through conversation and small experiments between sessions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to choose methods based on goals, pace, and preferences. Together they set short-term steps and check what works, then adjust the plan when needed.

Session formats should be confirmed before booking since options are not listed here. Many people find online sessions useful because they can fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. If scheduling flexibility or fitting sessions around caregiving or work is important, ask about current session options when you start.