About Susan
Susan Bump is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings five years of clinical experience and focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Susan keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
She helps people name what feels hard, notice patterns, and try small changes that can make daily life easier. She aims to create a calm space where clients can speak openly without feeling judged.
Background and approach
Her work often looks at how early bonds and body sensations affect present-day worry and relationships. Attachment-Based Therapy guides conversations about trust, closeness, and the ways people seek safety. Somatic Therapy invites attention to physical reactions tied to emotions and uses simple body-awareness practices to reduce overwhelm.
Susan also supports people facing abandonment, body image concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, midlife questions, and family of origin issues. She helps clients sort through guilt, shame, and feelings of emptiness while exploring purpose and self-love. Sessions are offered in English and conducted with attention to each person's pace and goals.
Her style is collaborative: she listens, offers ideas, and adjusts the work based on what helps most. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step clearer and more manageable.
Using Attachment and Somatic Approaches Online
Susan uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at patterns in how people connect and respond to one another. That work focuses on trust, closeness, and how past relationships affect current stress and anxiety. It helps when relationship patterns or worry get in the way of daily life.She also uses Somatic Therapy to bring attention to physical sensations tied to emotions. This approach teaches simple body-awareness exercises to calm nervous system responses and reduce moments of overwhelm. It can be useful for people whose anxiety shows up as tension, racing heart, or difficulty settling.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit best with their needs, goals, and preferences. The therapist and client assess progress together and adjust the focus as things change.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent momentum.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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