About Susan
Susan Baltimore is a licensed clinical social worker with forty years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship problems. She speaks plainly and offers steady, compassionate support for people facing hard life changes.
Her approach is evidence-based and practical. Susan works with clients to name what feels unmanageable and then builds doable steps to reduce distress. Sessions often include talking through patterns, learning coping skills, and trying new ways to respond to difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Susan brings long experience supporting people with attachment wounds, body image concerns, caregiver stress, and social anxiety. She also helps those processing divorce or separation, guilt and shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. Her background makes her comfortable addressing both mood disorders and post-traumatic stress.
She aims to make therapy collaborative. That means setting goals together, checking what is and isn’t helping, and adjusting the plan as needed. People work at a pace that fits their needs and life situation.
Susan prefers straightforward language in sessions and emphasizes empathy. She helps clients build practical strategies to manage symptoms, repair relationships where possible, and move toward a clearer sense of direction.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Many clinicians use evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building manageable coping skills. Cognitive-style approaches help people identify anxious or negative thinking and practice clearer, more balanced responses to stress and social anxiety. These methods are useful for worry, mood problems, and many stress-related concerns.Other evidence-based work emphasizes processing past wounds and building healthier attachment patterns. This type of approach helps people understand how early relationships shape current reactions and gives concrete tools for reducing shame, improving boundaries, and repairing important connections.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to clarify goals, try methods that fit the person’s needs, and adjust as progress is made. Decisions about which techniques to use are based on symptoms, life demands, and personal preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online formats offer practical benefits for this work. Video calls are good for conversational sessions and real-time skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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