- ACT methods
- CBT techniques
- Attachment work
About Susan
Susan Sturdivant-Miles is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with 12 years of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family concerns, and parenting challenges. She works with people facing common life transitions and the specific problems that follow, such as attachment worries and difficulty communicating under pressure.
Susan favors practical conversation and grounded tools over jargon. Sessions focus on talking through what feels stuck, noticing unhelpful patterns, and trying small changes that can ease everyday pressure. She combines approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered work to match what a person needs in the moment.
Her background includes long-term work with stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver strain, and body image difficulties. She also helps people who struggle with codependency, commitment worries, and control or dependent personality patterns. These are addressed with straightforward techniques and attention to how relationships shape feeling and behavior.
Susan pays attention to attachment issues and the ways early relationships affect present-day guilt, shame, and self-blame. She can talk through abandonment concerns and the ripple effects they create in trust and closeness.
People who come to her can expect conversational sessions that mix reflection with specific exercises. She asks practical questions, suggests doable experiments between visits, and revisits what works as situations change.
How Susan uses evidence-based approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences dictate actions. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward those values even when guilt or shame shows up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep a problem going and uses practical experiments to change them. That can help when self-blame or anxiety repeat in familiar ways.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Decisions about techniques and homework are made collaboratively and can shift as progress is reviewed.
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm which options are offered before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by cutting travel time, allowing shorter check-ins when needed, or making it simpler to schedule sessions around work or parenting duties. Licensed professionals can use talk-based exercises, mindfulness practices, and CBT worksheets in remote sessions to keep the work practical and focused.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
12+ years
Listed in
Georgia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Susan works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, parenting issues, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care, body image, caregiver stress, and codependency.
How does she approach guilt and shame?
She uses a mix of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice painful thoughts and choose values-based actions. Cognitive Behavioral techniques are also used to test unhelpful beliefs.
How much experience does she have working with these issues?
Susan has 12 years of professional experience working with stress, anxiety, family and relationship challenges. That background informs her practical, conversational style.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor licensed in Georgia. Her practice is based in Georgia.
Does she work in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats does she offer?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Check the booking flow for up-to-date session choices.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Exact rates will appear during the sign-up process.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session through the system.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.