Mary-Suzanne Bante

Mary-Suzanne Bante is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan with three decades of experience supporting people through eating and body image concerns, depression, and changes in life. She focuses on self-esteem, coping with transitions, compassion fatigue, and coaching toward clearer goals. Her approach is kind and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more in charge of day-to-day choices.

Mary-Suzanne uses straightforward conversations to help people spot patterns and try new ways of handling problems. She often blends practical tools with mindfulness skills so clients can respond to difficult feelings without getting overwhelmed. Sessions emphasize small, workable steps rather than abstract theory.

Her background includes long work in nonprofits, universities, and community boards in Michigan. That experience shapes a practical outlook and an ability to talk about life stressors like caregiving, chronic illness, or workplace strain. She can also help people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and experiences of abandonment.

In sessions she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness practices, Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused ideas to tailor plans to each person. Work might include tracking thoughts and behaviors, brief experiments between meetings, and building routines that support recovery and purpose.

Mary-Suzanne describes her style as warm and collaborative. She invites clients to set small goals and checks progress together. To begin, people use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

Approaches you can try together online

Mary-Suzanne often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT works well for depression, low self-esteem, and shifting responses to body image worries. Mindfulness Therapy is another common element she brings into sessions; it teaches simple attention exercises to reduce reactivity to difficult feelings and increase calm in daily life.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try methods that seem most useful. Sessions are collaborative and adjust over time based on what helps most.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, shorten travel time, and allow for sessions during evenings or weekends when offered. It can also let someone use a quieter location, avoid a long commute, or schedule brief check-ins between commitments. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt CBT and mindfulness exercises for remote sessions so practical skills carry over into everyday routines.