Sue Frazier-Bear, LPC

Sue Frazier-Bear is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with more than twenty years of clinical experience helping adults and children navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She has worked in education and alongside psychiatrists, mentors, and fellow counselors, and she has served as a training supervisor for counselors in training, which contributes to a broad and practical perspective on therapeutic work. She values dignity and respect as the foundation of the therapeutic relationship and draws on a range of theoretical approaches to tailor interventions to each person’s needs.

Sue’s practice emphasizes individual counseling, with particular focus on anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, anger, substance abuse, adults abused as children and reparenting, developmental transitions, and coping with life changes. She incorporates mindfulness techniques, guided relaxation, stress-reduction strategies, and breathing exercises into her work, and she is a member of the Self-Compassion Community of Kristen Neff. Her approach is affirming of all clients and attentive to issues such as family of origin, parenting, adoption and foster care, abandonment, first responder concerns, and end-of-life and hospice issues.

Clients can expect a clinician who integrates psychodynamic ideas, compassion-focused perspectives, and evidence-informed tools to help them find meaning and practical ways to move forward. Sue’s experience as both a practitioner and a supervisor informs a thoughtful, experienced approach to counseling rooted in respect and collaboration.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values, accept difficult thoughts or feelings, and take purposeful action toward what matters most. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions where shifting behavior and increasing psychological flexibility are goals.

Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences, relationships, and unconscious patterns influence present feelings and behavior. This approach can be helpful for issues like relationship difficulties, family of origin concerns, and recurring emotional patterns that affect daily life.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness through practices like breathing exercises and guided relaxation to reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation. It can be effective for stress reduction, anxiety, and building coping skills.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sue collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as the work unfolds to create a tailored plan.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging let people access licensed professionals from different settings and schedules. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, family, and other commitments while receiving consistent therapeutic support.