Susan Maphis

Writer, Editor & Fact-Checker · Addiction-Counselors.com

Susan has worked as a freelance writer and editor since 1986, and has written for education and career guidance websites since 2009. Her work spans newspaper reporting, press releases, academic and technical articles, and healthcare, mental health and career content, and she once wrote a monthly “Stateside” column for the UK’s Marketing Business magazine. She holds a BA in psychology from West Chester University and lives in Maryland. Susan is part of our network’s editorial team and fact-checks Addiction-Counselors.com articles before they’re published.

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What Susan Does Here

Before an article on Addiction-Counselors.com is published or updated, Susan checks it against the sources it relies on. That includes every statistic, every certification or licensing requirement, every program detail, and every date.

That means checking certification and licensing requirements against each state’s certification or licensing board and against NAADAC and IC&RC credential standards, and salary figures against U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. When something doesn’t match its source, it’s corrected before the article goes live.

Susan’s role is verification, not expert review: making sure what each article says matches the official sources behind it. Every article on this site shows Susan’s name under the byline.

How We Check Our Work

Fact-checking on this site is done by people on our editorial team, never by an AI tool. Our editorial standards explain where our facts come from, how we use AI, and how we handle corrections, and you can meet the rest of the people behind the site on our About page.

If you spot something that looks wrong or out of date, use the corrections contact on our editorial standards page and tell us the page and what needs fixing.