About Susan
Susan Jordan-Kertzner is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and career uncertainty. She also supports those coping with grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, and identity issues related to LGBT concerns. Her style is warm and interactive, and she pays attention to both feelings and bodily experience.
Susan draws on somatic ideas alongside practical talk therapy to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
Background and approach
She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based approaches to teach skills for managing difficult thoughts and emotions. Sessions include checking in on sensations, practicing new skills, and making concrete plans to try between meetings. Her work emphasizes attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current connections.
She helps clients identify communication habits, codependent responses, and control struggles, then experiment with new ways of relating. That focus can be useful for people dealing with divorce, caregiver strain, or problems balancing intimacy and independence. Over nearly two decades in practice Susan has supported people through trauma, panic attacks, postpartum depression, and first responder or veteran-related stress.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and aims to help each person build a plan for growth and greater life satisfaction. Her Colorado licensure is LPC CO 5137. Susan accepts international clients and offers flexible online formats.
People start by answering a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits their needs. The subscription model for sessions can be canceled at any time.
How somatic and acceptance work translate to online sessions
Somatic-informed work helps people tune into bodily sensations that relate to stress and trauma; online sessions can guide gentle noticing, breathing practices, and grounding exercises to reduce reactivity. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values-based action, helping people commit to small steps that match what matters to them. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and communication, helping people try new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That plan can change over time as progress and preferences emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow for consistent check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and flexible scheduling for people in different time zones or locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English