Suzanne Messina, LCMHC

Biography

Suzanne Messina is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with over 20 years of experience helping children, adolescents, and adults navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, and life transitions. She uses evidence-based approaches including CBT and ACT to provide compassionate, solution-focused care that helps clients build resilience, develop practical coping skills, and create lasting change.

Brightside offerings

Therapy Teen Therapy

Clinical Focus Areas

ADHD ADHD / Neurodevelopmental Disorders Anger Management Autism Spectrum Disorders Behavioral Issues Bipolar Disorder Career Counseling Codependency Depression Divorce Domestic Abuse Education and Learning Disabilities Gender Identity Grief & Loss Infertility Infidelity Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD) Oppositional Defiance (ODD) Parenting Postpartum Pregnancy Prenatal Racial Identity Relationship Issues Self Esteem Self-Harming Sexual Abuse Sleep or Insomnia Stress Suicidal Ideation Transgender Trauma and PTSD Veterans Women's Issues

Approach

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT)

Languages

English

Identity

She/Her/Hers

Culture & faith

African American African Traditional Spiritualities/Religions Asian and Pacific Islander Diasporic Cultures Bicultural / Multicultural People Buddhism Caribbean Cultures Catholicism Caucasus Cultures Central American Cultures Central Asian Cultures Chicano/a/x Christianity Diasporic or Black Culture Eastern European Cultures Indigenous Spiritualities Jewish Culture Latin American Cultures Mexican American Culture North Asian Cultures Northern European Cultures South American Cultures Southern European Cultures Spiritism Western European Cultures

Community & allyship

BIPOC Chronic Illness Immigrants LGBTQ+ Men's Mental Health Neurodiversity People with Disabilities Single Mothers Survivors of Trauma and Abuse Veterans Women

Credentials

LCMHC

States served

Delaware Florida

Insurances accepted

Aetna All Savers Allegiance Benefit Plan Management Allied Benefit Systems Ambetter AmeriHealth Administrators (non-Medicaid plans) Blue Shield of California Cigna GEHA Healthscopes Independence Blue Cross (IBX) Magellan Medica Medicare Meritain Health Nebraska Total Care New York City Employees Plan Oscar Oxford Health Plans Public Employees Health Plan