Susan Yvette Underwood is an LPC with 20 years of experience helping people strengthen self-esteem and navigate painful life changes. She focuses on clear, practical support so clients can build self-love and better communication. Her work often centers on trauma recovery, eating concerns, and issues faced by LGBT people.
Susan uses a compassionate, collaborative style in sessions. She helps people name and process feelings like guilt, shame, and emptiness. Together they develop coping strategies for panic, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress.
Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. Sessions are a place to talk through family of origin issues, codependency, and problems with intimacy or sexual identity. She also addresses concerns such as isolation, life purpose, and midlife transitions.
Clients may explore recovery from domestic violence, dissociation, or food-related struggles. Susan also supports people dealing with HIV / AIDS, aging and geriatric issues, and nontraditional sexuality topics such as BDSM and kink culture.
Throughout work together she emphasizes practical skills and gradual change. The aim is clearer communication, more steady self-worth, and tools to manage distress. To begin, clients use the site continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Many of Susan's methods focus on practical, evidence-based techniques that help people manage distress and rebuild self-esteem. One common approach emphasizes trauma-focused strategies that help people notice triggers, process painful memories, and build steady coping skills for anxiety and post-traumatic stress. Another strand of her work addresses eating and body concerns by helping clients identify unhelpful patterns, practice acceptance, and build healthier routines around food and self-image.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan works with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try different strategies and adjust the plan as progress and life circumstances evolve.
The original biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also lets people continue work through life transitions or while managing limited free time. Licensed professionals can adapt techniques used in person to remote sessions so clients keep momentum toward clearer communication and stronger self-esteem.
She helps people with self-esteem, trauma and abuse, eating and food-related issues, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include loneliness, codependency, grief around family of origin, and midlife concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is compassionate and collaborative. Sessions focus on talking through feelings, building coping skills, and improving communication.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
She has 20 years of experience as a licensed counselor working with trauma, LGBT issues, eating concerns, and self-esteem challenges. That background shapes how she supports clients.
Where does she practice and what are her credentials?
She practices in Arizona and holds the LPC credential, licensed in Colorado and Arizona as CO LPC and AZ LPC. Sessions are conducted in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted. Sessions are offered in English for people located where her licensing permits work.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking so you know how sessions will be delivered.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; details about rates are provided during matching and scheduling.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the continue button on this profile on the site, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
