About Susan
Susan Clark is a licensed marriage and family therapist with nine years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and attention challenges. Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and doable for busy parents and young people.
She prefers clear goals and practical steps that fit daily life. She has worked with young children, adolescents, and young adults who face trauma, victimization, sex trafficking recovery, and common childhood behavior challenges.
Background and approach
Susan emphasizes early intervention and believes getting support during childhood and adolescence can change life direction. She keeps sessions calm and age-appropriate so young clients feel seen and heard. Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s needs.
Sessions may include simple skills to manage anxiety, ways to cope after loss, and strategies to improve focus and confidence. She explains tools in plain language and practices them together with the client. Therapy with Susan is meant to be approachable and occasionally even a little fun.
Parents will find straightforward communication about progress and practical suggestions they can try at home. Her goal is to help young people build resilience and steady the changes that follow healing. To get started she asks people to complete an intake questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their availability.
Susan offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging options for ongoing support.
Evidence-Based Techniques Delivered Online
Many of Susan's sessions draw on well-established, evidence-based techniques that teach clear skills. One common approach is skill-based anxiety work that teaches breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure ideas to reduce avoidance and build confidence. These tools help with everyday worries and panic symptoms.She also uses trauma-informed methods focused on pacing and safety, helping young people tell their story at a comfortable pace and build ways to cope with difficult memories. This approach aims to reduce distress and strengthen emotional regulation after traumatic experiences.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Susan works with each client and, when appropriate, caregivers to figure out which techniques fit the person's age, goals, and daily routine. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, homework support, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options increase flexibility and help maintain continuity of care across different schedules and locations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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