Susan Henry, LISW, LCSW
Iowa · 25 years in practice
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LISW, Iowa
- 083249 · expires December 2026
- LCSW, New Jersey
- 44SC06163800 · expires August 2026
- LCSW, Nevada
- 11070-C · expires December 2026
- LICSW, Minnesota
- 33378 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1013580653 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Susan
Susan Henry is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. She is a LISW and an LCSW practicing from Minnesota and offers care in English.
Susan builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can describe what feels hard. She listens closely and helps clients name emotional patterns. Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
The tone is warm and straightforward rather than clinical. Her work combines systemic thinking with approaches like acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused techniques, and cognitive strategies. That mix helps when problems involve repeated relationship patterns, difficult feelings after loss, or cycles of anxiety and avoidance.
She also supports people facing life changes, career stress, and issues tied to identity and intimacy. Susan draws on decades of experience to tailor sessions to each person. She pays attention to how background, relationships, and daily routines shape wellbeing.
Together with clients she sets short-term goals and tracks small changes that add up over time. Sessions can address practical skills such as managing strong emotions, improving sleep and eating routines, or coping with compassion fatigue and burnout. Susan also offers coaching-style support for career questions and life transitions.
The focus is on realistic steps a person can use outside the therapy hour.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Susan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Susan names
- Systemic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Systemic therapy looks at how relationships and daily routines shape a person’s problems. It helps when patterns repeat across work, home, and friendships and when understanding context matters. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values, then taking actions that fit what matters most; it can help with anxiety, grief, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early bonds influence current closeness and trust issues and can be useful for intimacy and relationship struggles.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try different methods, and adjust based on what helps. That may mean mixing systemic questions with ACT exercises or attachment-focused conversations until a helpful path emerges.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people read visual cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or times when a shorter, written touchpoint helps. These options provide flexibility so work on relationships, stress, or grief can continue without added travel.
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Questions people ask
What issues does she help with?
Susan works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction, depression, bipolar, ADHD, and identity and body image matters.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a person-centered and collaborative style that combines Systemic therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, and cognitive techniques to help clients understand patterns and try practical changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of counseling experience working with people across many life challenges and transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
Susan holds IA LISW and NV LCSW credentials and practices from Minnesota.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can I work with her from another country?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are offered domestically in line with licensing.
What session formats are available?
She sees clients via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How do fees and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's availability.
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