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Sus Austill, LCSW

  • Experience37 years
  • LocationFlorida
  • Focus areasADHD, Addictions, and LGBT
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • LanguagesEnglish and Danish
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About Sus

Sus Austill is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who practices from a client-centered perspective while drawing on cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches.

Background and approach

With 37 years of professional experience and a long personal recovery history, she combines empathic listening with practical tools to help people navigate addiction, trauma, grief, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family challenges. Her background includes work across outpatient, residential, and inpatient settings, giving her familiarity with complex mental health and substance use concerns.

She uses a flexible, intuitive style rather than a single rigid method, adapting narrative, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness techniques to each person’s needs. Sus also brings experience with caregiver stress, cancer-related concerns, codependency, domestic violence, and issues such as impulsivity, isolation, and life purpose.

Clients can expect a steady, collaborative presence focused on repair, direction, and the chance to tell their stories. Practicing in Florida, Sus offers services in English and Danish and accepts international clients.

Her approach is rooted in long-term professional experience and a belief that good therapy meets the individual where they are, offering both practical strategies and a supportive space for change.

Practical approaches for online healing and growth

Sus often uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work; client-centered therapy focuses on empathic listening and supporting each person’s own strengths so they can find direction, while CBT looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers concrete strategies to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. She also integrates mindfulness practices to help with stress, anxiety, and the moment-to-moment regulation of emotions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and she frames that choice as collaborative. Together the therapist and client assess goals, preferences, and responses to different techniques, adapting methods over time so the work stays relevant and effective for the person’s unique situation.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and access. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity when travel or relocation occurs, and let people connect from their own environments while working on issues like ADHD, addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with a broad range of issues including addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, ADHD, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and flexible, blending cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, narrative work, and motivational interviewing to fit each person’s needs.
What is her professional background?
She brings 37 years of experience working in mental health and substance use settings, with practice across outpatient, residential, and inpatient environments.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LCSW licensed in Florida - FL LCSW SW11374 - and practices from Florida.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English and Danish, and she accepts international clients for remote work.
What session formats are available?
Clients can connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference and availability.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How does someone begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

CancerCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameImmigration issuesImpulsivityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

37+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English, Danish

What Sus can help with

Sus Austill works with clients on addictions, LGBT, trauma and abuse, grief, and ADHD.

Sus has 28 years of working with children, adolescent, adults, and families.

How Sus approaches therapy

Sus's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Sus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Florida, with 37 years of clinical experience.