Suzanne Walker, LCMHC

Suzanne Walker is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 38 years of experience. She uses a person-centered approach and helps people find practical ways to manage stress, trauma, anxiety, addiction, and life changes. Suzanne emphasizes the relationship in therapy as the foundation for change and listens without judgment to help clients decide next steps.

She draws on a range of methods to match care to each person's needs. Sessions often include talking through problems, identifying choices, and building skills for everyday challenges like sleep, parenting, work stress, or coping after loss. Suzanne also brings perspective from years of work with civilians and with the U.S. military community, and from life as a military family member.

Suzanne works with adults, adolescents, and children and has experience with diverse cultures and lifestyles. She is familiar with issues facing LGBT people and their allies and aims to provide unconditional positive regard to everyone she sees. Her clinical approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, and dialectical behavior ideas.

Her background includes a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology earned in 1984 and long experience as a clinician and clinical supervisor. Suzanne combines that experience with an individualized process to build a plan that fits each person's goals and situation.

She encourages people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck to take the first step. Talking with a counselor can help sort out options and identify small, workable changes that make daily life easier.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when hard feelings show up. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. It often uses simple exercises between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. That conversation guides which methods are tried first and when to adjust the plan, so therapy stays practical and responsive.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Some formats also use less bandwidth or let a person speak without video, which can make it easier to focus on the conversation and on practicing skills between meetings.