About Sue
Sue (Susie) Swartz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She uses straightforward, compassionate care to help clients get through major life changes and addictive behaviors. Sue aims to guide people toward clearer thinking and calmer days.
Sue favors practical work in the therapy room. She listens first, then helps clients spot patterns in thoughts and behaviors that get in the way.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on usable tools and small changes that add up over time. She leans on approaches that emphasize present choices and emotional understanding. Her background includes a decade of clinical practice and earlier roles in crisis intervention and victim advocacy.
That experience shaped how she responds to people after hard events and loss. She draws on that history when supporting people through complicated bereavement and trauma. Sue blends several evidence-informed methods to fit each person.
She combines cognitive techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts with acceptance-oriented work to handle painful feelings. Attachment-focused ideas help when relationship patterns or early losses affect current life. Clients can expect a calm, steady presence aimed at practical progress.
Sessions commonly include skill practice, real-world experiments, and time to reflect on what worked. The goal is clearer options and more confidence making everyday choices.
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Sue commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult feelings while choosing actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-world experiments, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sue will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that fit how they prefer to work. Together they adjust the approach over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when people want more frequent touchpoints between sessions. These options are intended to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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