- ACT methods
- CBT strategies
- Communication skills
About Susan
Susan Arvidson is a Minnesota LPCC with six years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are managing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, and anger. Sessions focus on practical steps to reduce reactivity and improve day-to-day coping.
Her approach blends several evidence-based methods. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking and change patterns that feed anger and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy shapes sessions around each person’s pace and priorities.
Susan pays attention to how past experiences and personality patterns affect current reactions. That includes issues tied to adoption and foster care, avoidant or dependent personality tendencies, and mood or personality disorders. She also addresses situational stresses such as divorce, family problems, and isolation.
Practical skills are part of most sessions. People work on communication, managing shame or guilt, and rebuilding trust with themselves and others. Work can include strategies for relationship conflicts, intimacy-related concerns, and coping with ADHD-related frustrations.
Her practice also helps people dealing with post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood shifts, and disruptive mood regulation concerns. Sessions aim to reduce the hold of reactive anger and increase predictable ways of responding. To begin, follow the site process to complete a short questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people learn to notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting pulled into them. Online sessions can focus on values-based actions and simple exercises to reduce reactivity to anger and sadness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and teaches practical behavior changes that reduce stress and irritability. In video or phone conversations clients and the therapist can practice thought records and behavior experiments together.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative task. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. That means ACT or CBT skills may be combined with Client-Centered conversation or DBT techniques depending on needs.
Confirm the current session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, allow for shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove the need to travel. The online setting still lets a therapist guide skills practice, review homework, and coach through moments of anger or stress so work can continue between sessions.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
6+ years
Listed in
Minnesota
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and related issues such as self-esteem and ADHD.
What styles of therapy does she use?
The work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy to address thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has six years of experience providing therapy to adults on a range of emotional and relationship issues.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an LPCC licensed in Minnesota and practices from that state.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.