About Susan
Susan Haynes-Carabello helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 25 years of professional experience. Her work focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more in control.
Susan emphasizes calm, steady support during difficult moments. She listens without judgment and creates space for people to name painful memories and current worries.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve talking through patterns, learning new coping tools, and practicing small changes that add up over time. Her approach pulls from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies. That mix helps people reduce anxiety, process traumatic events, manage grief, and rebuild confidence.
Susan also addresses issues linked to aging, caregiving stress, isolation, and life-purpose concerns. People meet her for help after loss, during midlife transitions, when facing health or end-of-life concerns, or after traumatic experiences. She supports those coping with seasonal mood shifts, veteran-related stress, or traumatic brain injury effects.
Sessions aim to be practical, respectful, and goal-oriented. Susan frames therapy as a collaborative process. She teaches tools for emotion regulation, thought reframing, and mindful awareness.
The focus is on small, manageable steps that help people move toward clearer priorities and more satisfying daily life.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first by focusing on understanding feelings and building trust; it helps when someone needs a steady, listening presence while sorting emotions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depressive thinking.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose methods that match the issue and the person’s style, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and nonverbal cues, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat or messaging can be used for short check-ins, ongoing reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English