Suzanne Walker, LCMHC

Suzanne Walker is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She brings 18 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, mood concerns, and life transitions. Suzanne speaks English and uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Her background includes work across many service settings. She has provided individual and group counseling, worked with people receiving medication assisted treatment for opioid use, and served as a community support team lead for adults with persistent mental illness. She has experience with court-ordered care, inpatient treatment settings, and program management in treatment centers. In sessions Suzanne uses a mix of familiar approaches. She draws on client-centered methods to follow a person's lead and motivational interviewing to build readiness for change. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas and mindfulness practices to address thoughts, behaviors, and emotional regulation. People come to her for help with addiction and substance use concerns as well as depression, bipolar disorder, panic, trauma, grief, sleep problems, anger, and ADHD. She also supports those facing relationship strain, communication problems, body image concerns, chronic pain or illness, and the stresses of caregiving and aging. Suzanne prefers video so therapists and clients can connect visually, but she also offers telephone and live chat when that suits a person better. She schedules weekday and evening appointments and sometimes sees people on Saturday mornings.

How Suzanne’s approaches work in online therapy

Client-centered work focuses on the person first. The therapist listens, follows your priorities, and helps you set goals that matter to you. This approach is useful when someone needs space to talk through difficult experiences and make a plan at their own pace.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Suzanne uses practical CBT strategies to help people change unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can ease anxiety, depression, and some addiction-related patterns.

Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices. These tools help when stress, panic, or strong emotions feel overwhelming and someone needs quick ways to calm their reactions.

Choosing the right approach is part of working together. Suzanne will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what felt helpful in the past. Together they decide whether to use client-centered conversations, CBT techniques, mindfulness exercises, motivational interviewing, or a combination.

Session options mentioned in the original biography include video, telephone, and live chat. Confirm the current session formats before booking so you know what will be available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into workdays, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when life is busy. Licensed professionals can adapt tools like CBT and mindfulness to work in these formats so people can practice skills between sessions.