Susanna Cheatham, LPC

Susanna Cheatham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical steps that can change day-to-day life, while respecting each person’s choices and goals. Her approach centers on listening first and working together toward clearer coping and improved well-being.

She frames counseling as a team effort where the client leads the goals. Sessions emphasize straightforward techniques to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. Susanna blends client-centered care with strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based work to address worry, panic, and low mood.

For people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, or chronic pain, she offers ways to manage feelings and rebuild routines. She also helps with intimacy and attachment concerns, addiction-related struggles, sleep problems, and career or life-purpose questions. Her experience includes work around abandonment, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and isolation.

Susanna brings practical tools from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She uses existential ideas to help people find meaning during major life changes. Motivational interviewing techniques are added when people need extra support making behavior changes.

She lives in Alabama with her husband and pets and values family time with her children and grandchildren. Her style is warm and steady, aiming to make therapy useful and manageable for people juggling busy lives.

Approaches that translate to online care

Many of Susanna's approaches work well in a conversational setting. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the client, helping people clarify goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches specific skills for regulating strong emotions and tolerating distress during hard moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work she does with each person. Sessions are collaborative - the client’s needs, goals, and preferences guide which methods are tried. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most in everyday life.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a day. For some people, working from a quieter room or choosing phone over video helps with bandwidth or camera fatigue. Ask about available formats when you schedule to find what fits your routine.