About Susan
Susan Frambes is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She works with adults who have faced childhood trauma, emotional or physical abuse, and those coping with addiction and grief. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at reducing daily stress and improving how people feel and function.
She uses talk-based methods to identify patterns that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on clearer thinking, problem solving, and learning small changes that make everyday life easier. Clients can choose how they communicate, including video, phone, or text, and she aims to adapt scheduling when possible. With a long history of supporting people who have experienced stalking, domestic violence, and other forms of trauma, she brings steady, experienced care to difficult situations.
She helps people work through shame, guilt, family of origin issues, and relationship problems in manageable steps. Her work includes addressing body image, codependency, commitment concerns, and career or retirement transitions. She pays attention to sleep and eating issues when they affect mood and daily routine.
The goal is practical coping skills clients can use right away. Susan describes therapy as a collaborative process. She listens first, then tailors strategies from approaches such as cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness.
Over time clients build new ways to respond to stress and to old hurts.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and encourages them to set goals and take steps that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical strategies to change them. It is often used for anxiety, mood problems, and stress management.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your concerns and goals, then suggest methods that match your needs and comfort. Together you can try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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