About Susan
Susan Galewaler is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, family conflict, and trauma. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
Her work emphasizes a calm, open space where people can say what they feel. She encourages honest conversation and avoids judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real problems and everyday strategies that can reduce worry and improve communication. Susan has worked with family custody concerns and co-authored an educational book used by family therapists during difficult custody assessments. That background informs her approach to family and relationship questions without assuming any one solution fits every situation.
She also helps people facing issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and isolation. Practical skills for managing impulses, guilt, shame, and midlife transitions are part of her toolkit. She supports those dealing with life purpose questions and the stresses that come with major life changes.
Susan offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Her practice in Texas draws on long experience and straightforward guidance, helping people find workable steps forward when anxiety or stress make things feel overwhelming.
Approaches and online support for anxiety and relationships
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that focus on changing how people think and act in everyday situations. Cognitive approaches help identify unhelpful thoughts and teach straightforward ways to reframe them, which can lower anxiety and improve mood. Behavioral strategies focus on small, doable actions people can take to reduce avoidance and build confidence in stressful situations.Skills-based work can include communication practice and problem-solving. That kind of work helps when relationship tension or caregiver stress creates ongoing pressure. Therapists tailor exercises and homework so clients can try them between sessions and see what helps most in real life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. A therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up day to day. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular support. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when lower bandwidth is required or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short updates, or when a client needs an on-the-go option between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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