Suzanne Towne

Suzanne (Sue) Towne, LCSW, LICSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who supports people in Tennessee seeking help for life’s challenges. She brings 15 years of experience as a therapist and has also worked in the mental health field since 1976, first as a psychiatric RN (registered nurse) and later as a therapist, giving her a broad understanding of emotional and behavioral health across many settings.

Her background includes inpatient psychiatric work with concerns such as eating disorders, chemical dependency, and complex childhood and adult psychiatric disorders, as well as community mental health services supporting individuals, couples, groups, children, and foster parents within therapeutic foster care. Suzanne works with children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, and she welcomes concerns that may include stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, depression, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care, codependency, communication difficulties, control issues, obsessions and compulsions, OCD, panic disorder and panic attacks, and women’s issues.

Suzanne’s approach is grounded in the belief that people often already hold the building blocks for change, and that therapy can help clarify direction, strengthen coping, and support progress toward meaningful goals. She tailors techniques to each person’s comfort level and preferences, emphasizing that therapy is the client’s path and the work is collaborative. For sessions, she finds live video or phone to be the most effective ways to connect and engage in therapy, and she does not provide live chat as a session format.