About Susan
Susan Flynn is an Illinois-licensed clinician (LCPC) with six years of clinical experience supporting people through transitions, relationship concerns, and emotional challenges. She works with adults experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem issues, using an empathetic, individualized approach to help clients gain clarity and practical tools.
Background and approach
Her practice often addresses career and workplace concerns, parenting stresses, and the relational patterns that emerge from family of origin dynamics. Susan places emphasis on collaboration and skill-building, blending evidence-based methods with a client-centered stance so each person’s goals guide the work.
She also brings focused attention to aging and geriatric issues, codependency, divorce and separation, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and challenges such as isolation, guilt, and midlife shifts. Her style aims to strengthen communication, reduce loneliness, and foster resilience while honoring the unique experiences that shape each client’s life.
Clients can expect practical strategies alongside reflective exploration as they navigate change, repair relationships, and develop coping mechanisms for ongoing stressors. Susan’s professional training and orientation support a balance of insight and actionable steps designed to move clients toward greater emotional well-being.
Integrating Therapeutic Approaches with Online Care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding each person from their own perspective and creating a respectful, collaborative space where goals come from the client's priorities; this approach can be especially helpful for those coping with life transitions, grief, or self-esteem concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and to build practical coping skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for intense emotions and relationship challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and this therapist collaborates with clients to determine which methods or combination of methods best fit an individual’s needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative decision making is revisited as goals evolve over time.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provides flexibility for scheduling and access from different locations. These formats allow clients to engage in regular work on communication skills, coping strategies, and relationship-focused interventions without needing to travel, making consistent progress more manageable alongside busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English