Susan Rhodes

Susan Rhodes is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Texas. She brings 20 years of experience in mental health and a practical, direct style to sessions. She aims to help people who want change and are ready to take steps toward feeling better.

She draws on a wide range of settings and life experience to shape each plan. That means sessions focus on clear actions - personal inventories, concrete steps for healing, and ways to support recovery. She balances straightforward feedback with compassion so people can move at a pace that feels right to them.

Susan often helps people work through grief, depression, anger, addiction, anxiety, and relationship concerns. She also supports those facing major life changes, caregiver stress, chronic health challenges, and issues tied to adoption or attachment. Her work can include looking at communication, control issues, and patterns that keep people stuck.

Therapy blends practical tools and reflective work. Susan uses approaches such as client-centered conversations, cognitive-behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and psychodynamic ideas. These are used to set goals, shift patterns, and build skills for everyday life.

She mentions teletherapy as a way to fit sessions into busy schedules and to make it easier to keep appointments. Outside of practice she trains for marathons, cooks, takes day trips, and stays involved in creative projects and community work.

How her approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building goals that fit their life. It involves listening, reflecting, and shaping the plan around what matters most to the client, which can help with relationship, self-esteem, and grief issues.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more useful ones. It is practical and skill-focused, useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and sleep or eating concerns.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way of talking that helps people find their own reasons to change. It often supports work on addictions, readiness for change, and maintaining recovery steps.

Finding the best approach is part of the first steps together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative planning helps pick techniques and shape sessions so they match individual needs.

For online work, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to keep appointments, fit therapy into busy days, and reduce travel time. They can also allow shorter check-ins when a quick progress update is helpful and make it simpler to schedule around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.