About Susan
Susan Charney is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience in Arizona. She works with people facing anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, and major life changes. Her style is warm and direct, focused on clear steps people can try between sessions.
Susan uses practical tools to help people feel steadier day to day. She helps clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. She teaches simple mindfulness skills to manage strong emotions and to reduce reactivity.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely and asks concrete questions. That helps her and the client set realistic goals and track progress. She blends longer-term work about past hurts with short-term problem solving when a quick plan is needed.
Susan has worked with people facing grief, trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and challenges at work. She also supports those struggling with body image, eating concerns, and the stress of parenting. Her background includes helping people through divorce, blended family adjustments, and fertility-related worry.
Therapy with her is collaborative and paced to the client. She encourages practical experiments between sessions and uses conversations to build clearer choices. People who want straightforward feedback and gentle accountability often find this approach useful.
Approaches that work well online
Susan uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT offers clear tools for anxiety, stress, and mood changes, and it often includes homework between sessions to practice new skills.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness helps reduce reactivity, manage overwhelming feelings, and build tolerance for difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Susan will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past to shape a plan. That collaborative process means techniques can be adapted as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or when someone prefers writing over talking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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