- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Susan
Susan Jentoft is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage hard moments. She draws on a long clinical background to support parents and individuals facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and changes in family life. Susan practices from Mississippi and works with people who want practical tools and steady support.
She favors clear, down-to-earth conversations. Sessions often focus on improving communication, coping with big life changes, and sorting out relationship and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She blends talk and practical exercises so people leave with ideas they can try between meetings. Susan uses several well-known approaches in her work, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. That means she helps people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, and shape a therapy plan around each person's goals.
She also addresses issues like sleep and eating struggles, anger, self-esteem, career pressures, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and some long-term medical or life-stage concerns. Susan pays attention to how stress shows up in daily routines and relationships so small changes add up over time. Her style is collaborative and respectful.
She helps people set realistic steps, practice skills, and track progress. Many clients come for short-term work on specific problems and some stay longer for deeper change.
What Susan works with
Everything Susan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Susan helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Susan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small actions that matter to them even when feelings are hard. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework that are easy to do between sessions. That approach often helps with sleep, mood, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and can explore their own solutions.Susan treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those aims, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful. Finding the right fit is often a few conversations rather than a single decision.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper work, phone sessions can fit short check-ins or lower bandwidth needs, and live chat or text messaging can work for brief updates or practice between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy parenting schedules, work breaks, or times when travel isn't convenient.
Questions people ask about Susan
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, sleep and eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and related life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative, combining conversation with practical exercises and skill practice tailored to each person's goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 25 years of experience as a licensed professional counselor working with a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She practices in Mississippi and holds an MS and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangement; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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