Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
How Susan works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Years in practice
- 6
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Susan
Susan Davis is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage strong emotions and life stress. She offers calm, straightforward support for issues like anxiety, depression, anger, and addiction. Her tone is practical and encouraging for someone taking a first step toward change.
Susan uses clear, skills-based work in sessions. She listens closely and helps clients notice what matters to them. Then she suggests small, doable steps to reduce distress and improve daily coping.
Background and approach
Her approach draws from several well-known methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for handling intense emotions and improving self-management.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and act toward a meaningful life even when feelings are difficult. Susan has six years of professional experience as an Oregon LPC. She has supported people facing trauma, mood disorders, and co-occurring substance or process addictions.
She has also worked with veterans and people living with persistent mental health challenges. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Susan emphasizes concrete tools - breathing, grounding, behavioral experiments, and values-based goals - that can be used between sessions.
Her style is direct but compassionate, aiming to build stronger daily routines and safer ways to respond when anger or anxiety rise.
What Susan works with
Everything Susan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Susan's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Antisocial personality
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
Approaches Susan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify personal values and take small actions toward them even when feelings are intense. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, which can reduce the power of anger and anxiety over time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thought and behavior patterns by testing assumptions and building alternative habits. CBT is useful for depression, anxiety, and many addictive behaviors because it gives clear steps to practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills, which can be especially helpful when anger or intense mood swings are a concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From that discussion, she and the client choose methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and practical.
Online therapy supports this work through flexible session formats - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for brief updates or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, practice skills between meetings, and follow up without long travel times.
Questions people ask about Susan
What concerns does Susan commonly address?
Susan works with people on stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood issues, LGBT concerns, and self-esteem struggles, among other focuses listed in her profile.
What is Susan's therapeutic style like?
Her approach combines clear, skills-based techniques with listening and collaborative goal setting. Sessions emphasize practical steps clients can use between visits.
How long has she been practicing?
She has six years of professional experience working as a counselor in clinical settings and with diverse client concerns.
Where is Susan licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon and provides services from that location.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with Susan?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the client's preference.
How does cost and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule.