Susanna Cheatham, LPC

Susanna Cheatham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical ways to reduce daily overwhelm and improve how people cope with life changes. Her approach centers on each person’s goals and choices. She sees counseling as a team effort where the client leads and the counselor offers tools and support. Sessions emphasize clear steps people can use at home, at work, and in relationships. Techniques draw from cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to address symptoms like panic, sleeplessness, and low mood.

Susanna also works with issues tied to relationships, trauma and grief, addiction concerns, caregiver stress, chronic pain, and sexual intimacy questions. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns and to feelings of guilt, shame, or isolation. Practical problem solving and building healthier routines are common focuses in her work.

Her style is warm and straightforward. She listens first, then helps people try techniques that fit their life. Motivational interviewing ideas are used when people need help setting goals and finding reasons to change. Existential themes may appear when clients want to explore meaning and life purpose.

Susanna practices in Alabama and offers services in English. She invites people who want to reduce anxiety, improve relationships, or find steadier coping to use the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule a session.

How these approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the person’s lead. The therapist focuses on understanding each person’s experience and helping them make their own choices about change. This approach helps people who need a supportive, nonjudgmental space to talk about stress and anxiety.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It breaks problems into concrete skills and small experiments people can try between sessions to reduce panic, insomnia, and low mood. CBT is practical for day-to-day coping and habit change.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers tools for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches skills in areas like emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindful awareness, which can help with impulsivity, anger, and overwhelm.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That may mean starting with listening and then adding CBT or DBT skills as appropriate.

Confirm the current session options before booking since the biography does not list specific formats. Many people find online sessions helpful because they fit into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and make it easier to keep regular appointments. Sessions can also be adjusted to shorter check-ins or full-length meetings to match work, family, and daily routines.