Susan Henry, LISW, LCSW

Susan Henry, LISW, LCSW, has over 25 years of experience as a licensed social worker practicing in Minnesota. She focuses on creating a welcoming, affirming space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma, and life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people find clearer ways to cope and move forward.

Susan uses a mix of practical strategies and compassionate listening. She helps people notice patterns that cause pain and then work on small changes that make daily life easier. Sessions often include teaching skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and handling grief or loss.

Her background includes long experience supporting people through addictions, caregiving strain, chronic illness and pain, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT concerns. She also works with mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder, attention challenges like ADHD, and struggles with self-esteem and body image.

Susan draws from several well-known approaches including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral tools, and emotion-regulation skills. She adapts methods to each person instead of using one fixed formula.

People who tend to do well with her approach want practical tools plus a therapist who listens without judgment. To begin, readers can use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling according to therapist availability.

Approaches that translate to remote work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, chronic health struggles, and life transitions by clarifying what matters and building small habits around those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce distress. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating problems by offering practical steps to test unhelpful thoughts and change routines. Attachment-Based Therapy concentrates on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses, helping people improve intimacy and manage relational anxiety.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to choose or combine methods that fit the person's goals, preferences, and day-to-day demands. That means checking in and adjusting the plan if something isn't working.

Session formats are not specified in the profile, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full session isn't needed. It can also allow focused skill practice between meetings and steady follow-up for ongoing issues like chronic illness, caregiving stress, or mood management.