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Susan Scott

Practical, empathetic counseling for relationship and life challenges

LPC Texas

Experience
13 years in practice
Focus areas
Relationship, Family, Parenting
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
Languages
English
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About Susan

Susan Scott is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Texas who blends pragmatic strategies with empathic listening to help people navigate relationship and family challenges. With 13 years of clinical experience, she emphasizes practical skills and clear goals while adapting her approach to each client’s circumstances.

Background and approach

Her work often addresses relationship strains, parenting concerns, blended family dynamics, and coping with major life changes, alongside issues such as self-esteem, anger, depression, and compassion fatigue. She draws from a range of evidence-informed approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques, emotion-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help clients manage emotions, improve communication, and make sustainable changes.

Susan also attends to related issues like attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, forgiveness and shame, workplace challenges, and young adult transitions. She aims to create a respectful, collaborative space where treatment plans are tailored to an individual’s priorities and strengths so people can move forward with more clarity and resilience.

Approach-driven online therapy for relationship and life challenges

Susan commonly integrates cognitive behavioral techniques and emotion-focused methods to help clients make concrete changes and process relational pain. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts and behaviors to identify unhelpful patterns and build new coping skills for issues like mood concerns, impulsivity, and workplace stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and reorganizing emotional responses within relationships to promote safer, more connected interactions and to address attachment-related struggles.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with clients to clarify goals, explore preferences, and adjust methods as therapy progresses so the plan reflects what is most helpful for each person's needs and situation.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different lifestyles and communication styles. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of care when life gets complicated, while allowing licensed professionals to deliver consistent, goal-oriented support.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
Susan focuses on relationship and family matters as well as parenting, self-esteem, coping with life changes, anger, depression, and compassion fatigue. She also works with related areas such as attachment issues, blended family stress, and communication problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines client-centered empathy with structured, skills-based techniques like cognitive behavioral strategies and DBT skills when appropriate. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on practical steps toward clients' goals.
What is her professional background?
She brings 13 years of experience working with people facing family and relationship difficulties as well as mood and stress-related concerns. That experience informs a pragmatic, strengths-based approach to treatment.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
Susan is a licensed professional counselor in Texas and holds the LPC credential with license number TX LPC 65304.
Does she offer services in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are provided in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing depends on those factors.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsParenting issuesSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

Anger managementDepressionCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCommunication problemsDivorce and separationFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameImpulsivityJealousyMood disordersSelf-loveWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Motivational Interviewing

Experience

13+ years

Licensed

Texas

Languages

English