Susan Henry, LISW, LCSW

Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with 25 years of counseling experience. She works in Minnesota and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and life changes. She uses a warm, respectful approach that aims to help people feel heard and understood.

Susan often helps people untangle patterns that keep them stuck, like avoidance, people-pleasing, or repeated relationship problems. She combines practical skills with time to reflect so clients can try new ways of handling hard moments. Sessions focus on concrete tools for mood, sleep, and coping, plus time to talk through deeper feelings.

Her background includes long experience supporting those facing addiction, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and complex grief. She also addresses issues related to identity and intimacy, including LGBT concerns and adoption or foster care questions. Her work covers a wide emotional range from bipolar and depression to anger and self-esteem struggles.

Susan draws from several proven approaches, including cognitive behavioral work, acceptance-based methods, attachment-focused ideas, client-centered care, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She tailors these methods to each person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.

People who do best with her tend to want both practical steps and time to reflect. She supports clients who want to learn new coping strategies, improve relationships, or navigate major life transitions. To begin, readers should use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Susan uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood swings.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on accepting difficult feelings while taking steps toward a values-driven life. ACT can help with stress, addiction struggles, and coping with chronic illness.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and preferences. That conversation guides whether sessions emphasize skills practice, emotion-focused exploration, or values-based action.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and reduce travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it, and offers a way to keep continuity of care during life transitions. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and ACT exercises to these settings so clients keep making progress while fitting sessions into everyday life.