Susan Lueckenhoff, LCSW, CSW
Compassionate clinician focused on practical change
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Grief
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
How Susan works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW, CSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana, Colorado
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Susan
Susan Lueckenhoff is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience. She helps people facing trauma, loss, grief, anger, career struggles, and major life transitions. Her manner is open and engaged, and she focuses sessions on each person's goals and needs.
She works to build rapport and trust from the first meeting. Susan emphasizes compassion and respect as the foundation for change. Sessions are collaborative, with the client setting priorities and the therapist offering guidance and steady listening.
Background and approach
Susan uses several evidence-based tools to address strong emotions and difficult memories. She blends psychodynamic ideas with cognitive approaches to help people see patterns and test new ways of thinking. Acceptance-focused strategies are also used to reduce struggle with persistent distress.
Her style is gentle and active. She listens closely, asks practical questions, and helps people create clear, doable steps between sessions. That structure can be useful when anger or grief makes day-to-day life feel unpredictable.
Susan believes a good match matters. Therapy begins by shaping an individualized plan based on the person's goals and circumstances. She welcomes people who want a steady, experienced guide through change and healing.
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.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Psychodynamic-informed work helps people notice patterns from past experiences that still influence feelings and behavior today. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to uncover those patterns and consider new responses, which can be helpful for long-standing grief or relationship stress.Cognitive approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them through practical experiments. Techniques like thought records and behavioral tasks can be assigned between sessions to reduce anger and improve coping with life changes.
Acceptance-focused methods teach skills to tolerate difficult emotions and act in line with values. These practices can lower the struggle against painful feelings and help people move toward meaningful goals despite ongoing distress.
Finding the right mix of strategies is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, symptoms, and comfort level, adjusting plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can provide brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other obligations while keeping treatment consistent and practical.
Questions people ask about Susan
What concerns does she address?
Susan helps people with grief, anger, career challenges, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is open and interactive, combining gentle guidance with active listening to keep sessions focused on goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has thirty years of clinical experience working with trauma, loss, grief, and related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the credentials LCSW and CSW and practices from Indiana.
What languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.