Susan Keene

Susan Keene is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who focuses on cognitive behavioral therapy. She pays close attention to how thoughts shape feelings and behavior, and she helps people notice the self-talk that keeps them stuck. Her style is straightforward and practical, with an emphasis on lowering day-to-day distress.

She looks at how the brain responds when someone is triggered and offers simple exercises to calm those reactions. She also talks about how past trauma can still influence current life, and she will gently test small changes to see what helps. Sessions include direct observations and short practices to try between meetings.

Susan draws on 18 years of experience and on life experiences that include depression, anxiety, family conflict, and addiction. She combines clinical training with intuition and sometimes ideas from spiritual traditions, while remaining nonreligious. The goal is clearer thinking and fewer automatic self-blaming responses.

She names isolation and loneliness as common modern struggles and encourages people to notice how harsh self-judgment can be unfair. Susan invites curiosity and steady effort rather than quick fixes, and she asks clients to stay engaged even when progress feels slow.

To begin, prospective clients follow the site process to match and schedule an appointment. Sessions and the way messages are checked are arranged through the platform and according to the therapist's stated preferences and scheduling norms.

How CBT, DBT, and Mindfulness can work online

Online work with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking. It often involves short exercises, journaling, and concrete behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving moment-to-moment coping, such as grounding and distress-tolerance techniques. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help slow reactivity and increase awareness of feelings.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, and small experiments are used to see what actually helps.

The biography does not list specific session formats here, so confirm current options when you schedule. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten commute time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people practice skills in their usual environment and carry those gains into daily life. The therapist will discuss the best way to work together during the initial scheduling and matching steps.