About Suzanne
Suzanne Stokes is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 38 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with individuals facing self-esteem issues, life transitions, grief, addiction concerns, and intimacy-related problems. Suzanne focuses on practical steps that people can use each day to feel steadier and more in control.
Suzanne keeps sessions calm and direct. She listens closely and then helps clients try small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
Conversations cover how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and what actions can reduce suffering. She aims to make therapy clear and useful, not confusing. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, family of origin and blended family issues, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to chronic illness or pain.
She also supports people dealing with career pressure, first responder stress, and compassion fatigue. Suzanne draws on decades of work with a wide variety of life problems. In session she uses several approaches to match a person’s needs, including cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based strategies to manage difficult feelings, and attachment-focused work to examine relationship patterns.
Therapy is paced to each person’s comfort and goals. Suzanne offers appointments in multiple formats and conducts sessions in English. She holds a Florida LMHC credential and brings long-term practice experience to each meeting.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress. It is practical for anxiety, low mood, and coping with stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current patterns; it helps people understand relationship difficulties and improve emotional connection.Finding the right approach is part of working together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions match the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, brief check-ins, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and continue work between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English