Susana Willoughby-Negrete
Helping Adolescents & Adults Feel Understood, Supported & Ready to Move Forward
When life feels overwhelming, you don't have to face it alone. Susana Willoughby-Negrete offers compassionate, personalized counseling for teenagers and adults navigating anxiety, life transitions, stress, and personal growth in a safe, welcoming environment.
Susana Willoughby-Negrete
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern
A Place Where You & Your Teen Can Be Heard
You deserve a space where you can express yourself without feeling judged, misunderstood, or pressured to have all the answers. Susana provides tailored, compassionate counseling to guide both teenagers and adults toward emotional clarity.
Susana Willoughby-Negrete
Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern
Richmont Graduate University
Compassionate Care Tailored for Adolescents & Adults
Susana Willoughby-Negrete is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling Intern at Richmont Graduate University with a genuine passion for helping adolescents and adults navigate life’s challenges with compassion and care.
She values creating a welcoming, supportive environment where clients from all backgrounds feel heard, respected, and deeply understood. Drawing from her background as a personal care assistant and years of customer-focused service, Susana has developed exceptional listening skills, genuine empathy, and a deep appreciation for building meaningful therapeutic connections.
Helping teenagers manage anxiety, school stress, peer dynamics, self-esteem, and family communication.
Supporting adults through life transitions, stress management, identity discovery, and emotional healing.
Support for Both Adolescents and Adults
Every stage of life brings distinct challenges. Susana provides specialized care designed to meet adolescents and adults right where they are.
Adolescent & Teen Counseling
Being a teenager comes with real challenges. School pressure, friendships, anxiety, identity exploration, and family relationships can feel like too much.
How Counseling Helps Teens:
- Manage academic stress, social anxiety, and overwhelming feelings
- Build self-confidence, emotional awareness, and healthy boundaries
- Develop practical coping tools for everyday life and decision-making
- Strengthen family communication and peer connection
Adult Counseling & Psychotherapy
Adult life brings complex transitions, relationship dynamics, work burnout, and personal challenges. Counseling provides space to process and heal.
How Counseling Helps Adults:
- Navigate life transitions, career changes, and personal stress
- Work through anxiety, depression, and cognitive thought patterns
- Explore personal identity, cultural background, and self-compassion
- Develop healthier relationship dynamics and personal resilience
CBT, Third-Wave Approaches & Cultural Humility
Susana approaches counseling through a multicultural lens, emphasizing cultural humility, ethical practice, and individualized care. Her clinical foundation is rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and third-wave approaches, while embracing an eclectic style tailored to each client’s unique background and needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Helps clients explore how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact, empowering them to reframe unhelpful patterns into constructive ways of living.
Multicultural Lens & Cultural Humility
Respects and honors every client’s cultural background, values, and life experience, fostering an inclusive safe space for diverse individuals.
Eclectic & Person-Centered
Rather than a rigid one-size-fits-all model, therapy is tailored flexibly based on what works best for adolescents or adults.
"Susana is passionate about serving her community and is excited to support individuals and families on their journey toward healing, self-awareness, and personal growth."
Practical Tools for Real Growth
Counseling can help adolescents and adults better understand themselves, work through difficult experiences, and develop lifelong coping skills.
Understand Emotions
Learn to recognize feelings, identify hidden triggers, and respond to emotional distress with clarity and compassion.
Build Confidence
Explore unhelpful thought patterns, strengthen self-awareness, and develop a more balanced, positive self-perspective.
Develop Coping Skills
Gain practical strategies for managing anxiety, navigating relational conflict, and overcoming daily stressors.
Take the First Step Toward Healing
Interested in counseling with Susana for yourself or your adolescent? Fill out the intake inquiry form, and our administrative team at Beyond Today Counseling Center will reach out to discuss next steps.
Beyond Today Counseling Center
327 Dahlonega Street, Suite 1902B
Cumming, GA 30040
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