Susan Rick, LCPC

Susan Rick is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with eight years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and mood symptoms. She works with people who want clear steps and practical tools to feel steadier day to day.

Susan uses straightforward methods to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and habits. Sessions focus on skills you can try between meetings, such as tracking thought patterns, testing assumptions, and building small behavioral changes. She also draws on acceptance and mindfulness practices to reduce struggle with painful emotions.

Many clients come for help with panic, social anxiety, or feeling stuck after life changes. She also addresses anger, relationship communication problems, and issues tied to identity, including LGBT concerns. Susan pays attention to patterns like avoidance, impulsivity, and attachment difficulties that keep problems repeating.

Her approach mixes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered listening and tools from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. That combination aims to make thinking clearer and to teach concrete coping skills for intense feelings and difficult situations.

In sessions she emphasizes simple exercises and clear goals. People leave with practical experiments to try between appointments and ways to measure whether a new strategy helps. Her focus is on usable steps rather than long explanations.

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