About Susan
Susan Garner, LMFT, helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship pain, and major life changes. She works with issues like depression, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and challenges tied to family and attachment. Her approach is practical and focused on real problems people bring into the room.
Susan draws on two decades of clinical experience to guide therapy. She listens first, to help clarify what you most want to change.
Background and approach
Then she helps set clear goals and tools you can use between sessions. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and build more effective ways of coping. <brHer work blends several ways of working so treatment fits the person. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
Attachment-based ideas help address connection and intimacy issues. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused elements are added when they suit the problem. Susan has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, family of origin problems, infidelity, communication struggles, and blended family issues.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and career stress. Her style is warm, respectful, and direct, with an emphasis on building a strong working relationship. In therapy people learn to identify core patterns that keep causing pain and practice new ways of responding.
Susan helps translate insight into concrete steps so healing shapes day-to-day life. She invites clients to be active partners in that process and to measure progress as they go.
How Susan’s Approaches Work Online
Susan commonly blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going and teaching practical skills to change them; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people change how they relate to others, which is helpful for intimacy and communication issues.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That joint decision can change over time as progress reveals what works best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit more easily into a work break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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