Susan Henry, LISW, LCSW
Compassionate, steady care for life’s hard moments
Details
| Name | Susan Henry |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LISW, LCSW |
| Based in | Minnesota |
| Licensed in | Iowa, New Jersey, Nevada, Minnesota |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 25 |
About Susan
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with 25 years of experience helping people through hard times. She holds an Iowa Licensed Independent Social Worker credential and a Nevada Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential. Susan aims to build a warm, accepting space where people can speak honestly about stress, grief, trauma, and relationship strain.
She focuses on practical steps that make everyday life easier. Sessions often include talking through patterns, naming what matters, and trying small changes between meetings.
Background and approach
She helps people manage anxiety, mood struggles, and addiction-related concerns while also addressing career and self-esteem issues. Susan draws on narrative ideas to help people reframe their stories. She also uses acceptance and commitment techniques and attachment-informed work to untangle painful relationship patterns.
Her style stays client-centered so the person in the room shapes the pace and goals. Her background includes long experience with grief, trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, and caregiving stress. She also works with issues like ADHD, chronic illness, body image, and blended family dynamics.
Many clients come when major life transitions or recurring habits feel overwhelming. Susan welcomes people who want clear, steady support and practical tools. She aims to partner with each person to set realistic goals and to test what helps.
Progress is measured in small, useful changes that fit real life.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Trauma and abuse among the things Susan works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Systemic Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Susan directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Susan directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and ACT Shape Online Sessions
Many sessions use Narrative therapy to help people rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves and their relationships, which can be helpful for grief, identity questions, and trauma-related memories. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings, clarify values, and try actions that align with what matters. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and how early connections affect present-day responses, useful for intimacy and communication struggles.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to test what fits their needs and goals. Over a few meetings they will decide together whether to focus more on story work, values-driven actions, or attachment-based strategies.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people see facial cues and hold longer conversations, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth or comfort on camera is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and maintain momentum between sessions.
Common questions about this listing
What concerns does this therapist address?
Susan works with many issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related problems, addictions, and mood conditions like depression and bipolar.
How would you describe the therapy style and approach?
The approach blends Narrative therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed methods, all delivered in a client-centered, collaborative way.
How much experience does the therapist have?
She brings 25 years of clinical experience helping people navigate life transitions, trauma recovery, and ongoing stress.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LISW and LCSW credentials - Iowa LISW and Nevada LCSW - and practices from Minnesota.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only and international clients are not currently accepted.
What formats are available for sessions?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the person’s needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions operate through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
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