Suzanne Walker, LCMHC

Suzanne Walker is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with 38 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on a wide range of concerns, including anger, stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and career or life transitions.

Suzanne explains that talking with a counselor brings a nonjudgmental perspective and helps people process difficult situations. She emphasizes the role of choice - helping people see options and decide what matters to them when decisions feel hard. She names the relationship between client and counselor as the core ingredient that makes change possible.

Her background includes long experience as a clinician and a clinical supervisor. She has worked in civilian community settings and with the U.S. military as a Department of Defense provider. She also has personal experience as a military family member and draws on that understanding when supporting people affected by military life.

Suzanne uses a person-centered stance that focuses on listening, asking questions, and offering observations to build a plan together. She has worked across the age span and with many cultures and lifestyles, and she notes particular familiarity with issues facing LGBTQ+ people and their allies.

She draws on multiple approaches to meet practical needs, including cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, attachment-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. Together with the person she will consider what methods fit best and then plan next steps.

To start, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session so they can discuss goals and agree on how to proceed.

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