Susan Huerta , LMHC

Susan Huerta is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people through big life changes and hard emotions. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction. She also supports concerns around self-esteem, relationships, and career strain.

Susan draws on straightforward, practical methods to help people manage daily pressure. Sessions are a place to talk through what feels overwhelming and build simple tools for coping. She pays attention to how life roles like caregiving or aging affect mood and choices.

Her approach balances listening with hands-on strategies. Susan uses evidence-informed techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. She encourages small, doable steps that fit into busy lives.

Susan has particular experience with trauma recovery, chronic illness and pain, and substance concerns. She helps people facing isolation, relationship conflict, or the strain of caregiving. She also offers guidance around end-of-life issues and grief support.

People who benefit most tend to want practical change and a collaborative relationship. Sessions can include exploring values, building emotion regulation skills, and practicing new communication habits. Susan aims to help people regain a sense of purpose and more manageable day-to-day functioning.

How Susan uses evidence-based approaches online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take action toward those values even when difficult feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transition challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with behavioral experiments and skill-building to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that supports processing past distressing memories and can help reduce their emotional impact.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan works with each person to match methods to goals, preferences, and what feels doable. She explains options, tries techniques together, and adjusts the plan as needed so therapy fits each person's life and needs.

Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and use of visual tools, phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, caregiving, or mobility constraints.