About Susan
Susan Gerber is a licensed professional counselor in New Mexico with forty years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and guides those facing relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports people working through low self-esteem, motivation challenges, and major life changes.
Susan creates an open, nonjudgmental space for people to share their thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used day to day.
Background and approach
The aim is to talk through immediate problems and build skills to handle future ups and downs. Her work often addresses grief and loss, trauma and abuse, sleep disruption, parenting stress, anger, and depression. She also helps people dealing with infidelity and jealousy, offering steady support during emotionally charged times.
Conversations are paced to each person’s needs and comfort level. Susan favors simple, clear tools that people can try between sessions. She encourages small experiments and adjustments to routines that often make a big difference.
Progress is measured by how daily life feels and what a person is able to do differently. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Susan acknowledges that step. She meets people where they are and works collaboratively to set realistic goals.
The focus is on useful changes that fit the client’s life and values.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach involves teaching coping skills and relaxation strategies that reduce anxiety in the moment and improve sleep. These techniques help people manage stress reactions and get more predictable rest.Another common strand of her work centers on relationship and communication skills. That includes learning ways to express needs, set boundaries, and respond differently during conflicts. These tools are useful for intimacy concerns, jealousy, and navigating infidelity-related stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and test different methods. Together they pick what feels most useful and adjust over time based on what works in daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when that helps, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging offer shorter check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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