Susan Baxter, MS

Susan was born and raised in Blount County. Her family hails from the Cades Cove and Wears Valley area. Susan received her bachelor’s in psychology from Argosy university in 2013. She obtained her master’s in clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University. Susan spent over ten years in the social work field beginning in residential treatment with adolescents at Village Behavioral Health. Susan has also worked with adult as a Healthlink Care coordinator. She spent numerous years doing intensive in-home services for at-risk youth through CCFT and FITT services. Susan has worked in family preservation to assist in re-unification of parents and children involved with DCS teaching parenting, domestic violence, anger management, relapse prevention, non-offender parenting, alcohol and drug education and providing supervised visitations. Susan completed her internship at Omni Community Health providing therapy to underserved populations. She also completed an internship at New Hope Healthcare where she provided group psychoeducation on trauma and therapy services to adults in substance use recovery. Susan takes a cognitive processing approach to trauma. She has been focusing on providing trauma care to the LGBTQ+ community. Susan is also a member of Free Mom Hugs and Stand in Pride. She prides herself in seeing every human as equal and advocating for the rights of the underserved population. Susan plans on becoming a certified religious trauma therapist.