Sue Frazier-Bear

Sue Frazier-Bear is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of clinical experience. She creates a respectful, steady space where people can bring hard feelings and confusing situations. Her work centers on dignity and acceptance, and she draws on lived experience both as a clinician and as a former therapy client.

Sue focuses on individual counseling and uses approaches that fit each person. She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, relationship concerns, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and ADHD. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care history, family of origin issues, dissociation, and first responder stress.

Her clinical style blends mindfulness and psychodynamic perspectives with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Internal Family Systems ideas. In sessions she may use mindfulness, guided relaxation, breathing practices, and compassion-focused methods to address emotion regulation and difficult memories. The aim is practical skills you can use between sessions.

Sue has worked alongside psychiatrists, educators, and other counselors and has supervised trainees entering the field. Her experience includes substance abuse concerns in adults, anger issues across age groups, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. She is affirming of all people and mentions membership in the Self-Compassion Community of Kristen Neff.

Based in Tennessee, Sue brings a calm, experienced presence to individual work and helps people find meaning and clearer direction through steady, person-centered care.

How Sue’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions

Sue commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit. Sessions often start with practical skills and then move into deeper patterns as comfort grows, so approach and pacing are adjusted together.

Confirm current session options before booking because formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can help fit therapy into busy days by reducing travel time and making it easier to schedule shorter check-ins or evening appointments. It can also allow people to practice mindfulness and ACT exercises in familiar routines, then bring questions back to the therapist for discussion.