Suzanne Walker, LCMHC

Suzanne Walker is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist practicing in North Carolina. With 18 years of clinical experience, she brings extensive work across community mental health, outpatient treatment, and addiction services to support people facing a wide range of concerns.

Her background includes providing individual, group, and family counseling, serving as a Community Support Team lead working with adults who have severe and persistent mental illness, and managing programs at a treatment center that offered counseling to patients receiving medication assisted therapy (MAT). She has worked with clients who were court-ordered into substance use treatment and with people who required inpatient care for mental health or substance use disorders.

Suzanne focuses on areas such as stress and anxiety, substance use disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, low self-esteem and motivation, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and family difficulties, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns related to aging and geriatric issues, blended family challenges, body image, chronic pain and disability, codependency, communication and control issues, divorce and separation, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, and questions of life purpose and transition.

Her clinical approach draws from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness-based techniques, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy to tailor care to each person’s needs. Suzanne practices in English and has substantial experience addressing both mental health diagnoses and substance use disorders, including work involving Medication Assisted Therapy. She is based in North Carolina and has worked across multiple service settings throughout her career.