Susan Rhodes, LICSW, LCSW

Susan Rhodes is a licensed social worker with two decades of experience in mental health. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices in Texas. Her approach is direct yet compassionate and aimed at helping people make real changes in daily life.

Susan brings experience from many settings and uses both personal and professional lessons to guide sessions. She focuses on clear steps for healing, personal inventories, and actions that support recovery. She also helps people connect with resources when needed.

Susan commonly works with stress and anxiety and also addresses addictions, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and trauma and abuse. Other areas she supports include sleep and eating issues, parenting strains, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes.

Her clinical work draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, narrative approaches, and psychodynamic thinking. Sessions emphasize practical next steps, honest conversation, and a plan that fits each person’s pace and style.

She looks for people who are ready to try change, even when it feels hard. Outside of work she trains for a marathon, cooks, takes day trips, writes, and enjoys time with friends, family, and pets. Her style is creative, open-minded, and passionate about supporting progress.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in the room and on listening and responding to what matters most to them. It helps people set goals that fit their values and make changes at their own pace.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical tools to manage anxiety, stress, sleep, and mood by testing and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.

Motivational interviewing helps people move from uncertainty to action. It is useful when someone feels stuck about a habit or change and needs help finding their own reasons to try something different.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she will suggest approaches and adjust them based on feedback, keeping the process collaborative.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and limit travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules call for them, or let someone join a session without needing extra commute time. Licensed professionals and therapists can help tailor session length and pace to your everyday life.