Susan Mullen

Susan Mullen is a Colorado Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 18 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, self-esteem struggles, grief, career questions, compassion fatigue, and life purpose concerns.

Susan helps people manage big life changes and clarify what matters next. She supports caregivers and those coping with intellectual disability or autism spectrum differences. Her work also covers communication problems and disaster-related stress.

In sessions she uses straightforward conversation to identify what feels most pressing. She draws on Client-Centered methods to listen and reflect, and on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. Solution-Focused techniques help set attainable short-term goals.

Susan treats practical day-to-day problems alongside deeper questions about meaning and direction. She encourages clear steps people can test between meetings. The focus is on what the person wants to change and small strategies that fit their life.

People who book a first session can expect collaborative planning about goals and next steps. Susan accepts international clients and offers work informed by nearly two decades of practice in Colorado. To begin, users follow the site’s matching process to schedule a first session.

Using Therapeutic Approaches in Online Sessions

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. In online sessions this means sessions center on the client's perspective, with the therapist helping to clarify feelings and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT often uses short exercises and simple homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving between meetings. Existential Therapy addresses questions about meaning and purpose and can help when life changes make someone doubt their direction.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there they decide collaboratively which methods to try and how to pace sessions so the work fits the client's needs.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins, or remove the need to travel. Those practical benefits often help people keep momentum while they try small changes between appointments.