Dr. Suzanne Degges-White, LCMHC, LCPC

Dr. Suzanne Degges-White brings a compassionate, strengths-based approach to counseling built on more than 24 years of clinical experience. She holds the credentials LCMHC and LCPC - respectively a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - and practices with a focus on empowering people to make meaningful changes in their lives. She views each person as the expert of their own story and works to help them discover and apply their existing strengths to overcome current challenges.

Dr. Degges-White encourages clients to take courageous first steps toward greater fulfillment and well-being, offering steady support through both planned life transitions and unexpected shifts. Her practice emphasizes enhancing wellness, increasing personal empowerment, and developing practical strategies to manage stressors and relational difficulties. She places particular importance on helping clients build coping skills that address developmental changes, relationship conflicts, and issues that undermine confidence and motivation.

Therapeutically, she draws from a humanistic framework and integrates techniques from cognitive and behavioral therapy, existential counseling, choice theory, and feminist theory as appropriate to the concern. She frequently assigns brief, practical homework such as bibliotherapy and journaling to reinforce insight and behavioral change between sessions. Overall, her work centers on helping clients adopt new perspectives and behaviors that support sustained progress and a greater sense of contentment.