Sus Austill

Sus Austill approaches each person as the author of a unique life story and offers steady companionship through difficult terrain. She provides practical support, gentle guidance for new directions, and space for people to tell their stories and be heard.

She brings a long personal and professional history to her work: 40 years of sobriety, 39 years of parenting, and 28 years working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in mental health, substance use disorders, and crisis stabilization across outpatient, residential, and inpatient settings. In addition, she has 37 years of clinical experience overall and practices in Florida as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW, license number SW11374.

Having benefited from six years of her own therapy, Sus values an integrative, intuitive approach rather than a single-method model. Her clinical toolbox includes genograms, recovery-based therapy, motivational interviewing, attentive listening, gestalt therapy, cognitive-behavioral theory, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and tai chi.

Her areas of focus include PTSD, moral injury, compassion fatigue, substance use and dependency, ADHD, LGBTQ+ concerns, depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, and family systems. She especially welcomes people who feel marginalized or isolated, including those coping with heightened stress during the pandemic. Sus offers to walk alongside clients to help ease their path forward, provide tools for repair, or simply create a safe place to rest and share their story.