Sus Austill, LCSW

Sus Austill brings a lifetime of lived experience and decades of clinical work to her practice. She has maintained 40 years of sobriety and 39 years of parenting, and she has spent 28 years supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families in mental health, substance use disorders, and crisis stabilization across outpatient, residential, and inpatient settings.

Her own six years of personal therapy inform a collaborative, reflective approach; she believes a strong therapist benefits from having worked with a therapist. Over time her style has grown intuitive and integrative rather than tied to a single method. Her virtual toolbox includes genograms, recovery-based therapy, motivational interviewing, empathic listening, gestalt therapy, cognitive-behavioral theory, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and tai chi.

Areas of focus include PTSD, moral injury, compassion fatigue, substance use and dependency, ADHD, LGBTQ+ issues, depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, and family systems. She especially welcomes people who feel marginalized or isolated, recognizing the added stress many experience during widespread crises such as a pandemic.

She offers to walk alongside clients through difficult terrain, to share tools that ease the path forward, or simply to provide a steady space to tell one’s story. Sus is an LCSW - a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - who integrates experience, empathy, and practical strategies to support recovery and personal growth.