Susan Yvette Underwood, LPC

Susan Yvette Underwood is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience who supports people navigating complex emotional and life challenges. She focuses on helping clients cultivate self-love, strengthen communication skills, and clarify a meaningful sense of life purpose while offering specialized care for LGBT individuals, those recovering from trauma, and people managing eating concerns and self-esteem struggles.

Her practice emphasizes a compassionate, collaborative stance that helps clients work through social anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, and difficult life transitions. Susan creates a non-judgmental environment where clients can examine painful feelings such as guilt and shame, process traumatic memories, and practice resilient coping strategies that fit their daily lives.

Susan honors each person’s unique journey and partners with clients to build greater self-understanding and emotional well-being. Her goal is to walk alongside people as they develop skills, uncover inner strengths, and make sustainable changes that support long-term growth and healing.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each client’s needs. One key approach is trauma-informed therapy - a way of working that recognizes the impact of traumatic experiences and emphasizes safety, stabilization, and gradual processing to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Another central focus is skills-based work for coping and communication - teaching practical tools to manage anxiety, build self-esteem, navigate relationships, and handle life transitions.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan partners with clients to assess goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring, then adapts interventions over time so the treatment fits the person, not the other way around.

Online therapy with Susan is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to access care from different locations within her service area. These options support continuity of care and flexible ways to engage in the therapeutic work while maintaining a focus on progress and practical outcomes.