Sue Frazier-Bear, LPC

Sue Frazier-Bear is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience offering a counseling approach grounded in dignity, respect, and acceptance. She combines years of clinical work with experience as a training supervisor for emerging counselors, and she has collaborated closely with psychiatrists, mentors, and fellow clinicians to refine her practice. Her perspective is informed both by her professional training and by having also been in the client role, which contributes to a strong focus on building trust in the therapeutic relationship.

Sue concentrates much of her work in individual counseling, drawing on psychodynamic approaches as well as compassion-focused methods, and incorporating practices from Jungian, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Internal Family Systems where appropriate. She has experience with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and family dynamics, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem concerns, career issues, ADHD, and life transitions. Her practice also addresses needs related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, dissociation, domestic violence, family of origin issues, first responder concerns, guilt and shame, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and other complex situations. Sue integrates mindfulness, guided relaxation, stress-reduction techniques, and breathing exercises into treatment and is a member of the Self-Compassion Community of Kristen Neff. She affirms clients of all backgrounds and works collaboratively to help individuals find meaning and progress in their journeys.