Sus Austill, LCSW

Sus Austill, LCSW, brings a client-centered approach to relationship and personal struggles. She emphasizes listening first and offers practical tools to help people navigate addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, and life changes. Sus uses straightforward language and steady support so parents and caregivers can feel heard and understood.

She has 37 years of professional experience and long personal recovery and parenting experience that inform her work. That background shapes a flexible style rather than a single-method focus. Sessions often include clear techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness alongside narrative and motivational methods.

In practice she helps people address relationship challenges, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and family-of-origin issues. She also supports those dealing with substance use, compassion fatigue, or the stress of caregiving and serious illness. Sus is comfortable working with LGBT and gender-related concerns and with people coping with moral injury or trauma.

Sessions are offered in English and Danish, and she accepts international clients. Her approach blends practical skill-building with chances to tell and reorder personal stories so daily life feels more manageable. She aims to meet people where they are and help them find clearer next steps.

Overall, Sus focuses on steady, adaptable support. She listens, offers concrete strategies, and helps clients reconnect with hope and purpose as they work through difficult situations.

How Sus uses therapy methods online to address relationship and stress

Sus often draws on client-centered therapy to begin work by listening deeply and following what matters most to each person. This approach focuses on understanding the client's perspective, building trust, and shaping each session around the client's goals.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at practical links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT techniques help with anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and many relationship patterns by offering small, testable changes to daily routines and reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean blending listening-based work, CBT tasks, mindfulness practices, and narrative conversations about life story and meaning.

The practical benefits of online therapy include easier fitting of sessions into a busy day and fewer barriers to consistent care. Online work can make shorter check-ins possible and let people use mindfulness or behavioral tools between meetings. The original biography did not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking to know exactly how sessions will be scheduled.