About Susan
Susan Faix is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, grief, and parenting challenges. She aims to meet each person where they are and work at a pace that feels comfortable.
Her style is warm and respectful. She listens first and adapts the conversation to each person’s needs. Sessions are collaborative and practical, with clear steps to try between meetings when those are helpful.
Background and approach
Susan blends several approaches to match what a client needs. She draws on attachment-focused work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Emotion-focused ideas help people name and work with strong emotions that get in the way of connection or recovery. She has long experience supporting people through life transitions, coping with loss, and managing mood or attention concerns such as ADHD and bipolar challenges. She also helps with intimacy issues, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
Susan offers phone sessions, video calls, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule sessions.
How Susan’s approaches fit into online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at patterns that began in early relationships and how they show up now. It helps people understand closeness, trust, and why certain interactions trigger strong reactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more useful patterns. It is practical for anxiety, mood, and stress-related problems.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Susan will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that match their needs. The choice of approach is collaborative and can change as work progresses to keep sessions useful and relevant.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can work well for quick reflections or when writing helps organize thoughts.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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