About Susan
Susan Cooper is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience based in New Mexico. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She creates a straightforward space where clients can speak openly and be heard without judgment.
She helps people tackle practical problems step by step. That can mean talking through sleep difficulties, managing cravings or addictive behaviors, or navigating career and relationship stress.
Background and approach
Sessions also address parenting strain, body image worries, and compassion fatigue for caregivers. Susan draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support coping and building skills. She works collaboratively to set goals and practices simple tools clients can use between sessions.
The work is paced to each person’s needs and comfort level. Clients may bring complex concerns like bipolar mood management, chronic pain coping, attachment or abandonment wounds, or challenges related to adoption and blended families. Susan pays attention to how health, caregiving, and life transitions affect daily routines and mood.
She offers a direct and calm approach that focuses on practical change. English-language services are provided and international clients are accepted. The aim is to help people feel steadier and better able to handle the demands they face.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Evidence-based techniques focus on building practical skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach is skill-based work that teaches breathing, sleep routines, and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and improve mood. These tools are straightforward and useful for managing day-to-day stress.Another frequent method uses problem-focused talk that helps people identify triggers and try small behavioral changes. This approach suits worries about work, relationships, parenting, or coping with chronic illness because it breaks problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and choose techniques that match your situation. That plan is adjusted as you try methods and notice what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect that fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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