Therapist profile
Susan Keene, LCSW
Utah
LCSW - Anxiety and Relationship concerns
Continue with SusanWhere Susan stands
- Credentials
- LCSW
- License
- LCSW, Utah / 312328-3501
- NPI
- 1568433811
- Experience
- 18 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Utah
About
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- DBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Susan
Susan Keene is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Utah with 18 years of experience. She works with people who struggle with anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, grief, and problems that grow out of family history. She also lists codependency and communication problems among her areas of focus.
Susan centers her work on cognitive behavioral approaches. She pays close attention to the running self-talk that keeps people stuck and examines how automatic, survival-driven reactions shape behavior. Sessions include practical exercises to calm the body when the brain is triggered and steps to change unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices to help people tolerate strong emotions and build moment-to-moment awareness. That can look like learning grounding skills, practicing mindful attention, and developing strategies to respond rather than react in difficult moments.
Susan brings personal life experience with depression, anxiety, family conflict, and addiction to her clinical work. She says that experience, combined with her training, informs how she listens and what she suggests in sessions. She mentions influences from various spiritual traditions while noting she is not religious.
Susan prefers longer sessions when possible and asks people to read and sign a disclosure form before beginning. She encourages clients to try out platform tools such as video session tests and available classes and groups before scheduling their first appointment.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Susan uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In practice this means identifying negative self-talk, testing beliefs with experiments, and building small behavioral changes that reduce anxiety and low mood.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT exercises are practical tools for handling intense feelings and improving how someone copes with relationship triggers. Mindfulness techniques are used to strengthen attention, reduce rumination, and increase awareness of bodily cues that signal reactivity.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, current struggles, and preferences, then try approaches that fit. Adjustments are made as progress is tracked so the plan stays relevant to the person's day-to-day life.
Session formats are not fully specified in the source biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. The therapist has noted a preference for 45-minute sessions, and she suggests trying any video session tests or available classes on the platform before the first appointment.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
18+ years
Listed in
Utah
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, grief, family of origin concerns, and codependency among other topics.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her main approach is cognitive behavioral therapy with use of DBT skills and mindfulness exercises to calm the nervous system and change unhelpful thinking.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 18 years of experience as a clinician and combines that practice with personal experience of depression, anxiety, family conflict, and addiction.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an LCSW licensed in Utah.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
Which session formats does she use?
The original biography references platform-based sessions and a preference for 45-minute meetings; confirm current session formats and lengths before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session. She asks new clients to read and sign the disclosure form first.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.