Dr. Susan Frauenholtz, LISW, LCSW

Dr. Susan Frauenholtz offers a compassionate, client-centered way of working. She blends practical tools with listening and reflection to help people move through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. Her style is straightforward and strengths-based, focused on what a person needs right now rather than on labels. She holds LISW and LCSW credentials and brings 20 years of clinical experience to sessions.

She tailors sessions to each person’s goals and preferences. People often come for help with trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addiction, or struggles with self-esteem and life transitions. She also addresses concerns such as sleep and eating difficulties, career stress, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and issues related to cancer and caregiving.

Her toolbox includes approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, and solution-focused methods. In practice that means exploring what matters most to the person, building small practical changes, and reshaping unhelpful thoughts and stories that get in the way of daily life.

Susan emphasizes collaboration. She listens, reflects, and helps set achievable goals over time. Sessions aim to build skills people can use outside therapy and to increase resilience when life becomes overwhelming.

She provides services from Utah and offers appointments in English. International clients are accepted. Prospective clients should confirm current session options and scheduling when they get in touch.

How these approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and priorities and on building an accepting space to talk. It helps when someone wants to be heard and to figure out what matters most to them in everyday life.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change patterns that worsen anxiety, depression, or sleep and eating problems. It is useful for people who want concrete strategies to try between sessions.

Motivational interviewing helps people bridge the gap between wanting change and taking the first steps. It is often used when someone is working on addictions, motivation for treatment, or making lifestyle changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist works collaboratively to decide what fits best. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that match those needs, adjusting over time as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example scheduling during a work break, reducing travel time, or choosing shorter check-ins when needed. Ask about available session types and scheduling when you begin the matching process.