About Susan
Dr. Susan Graysen helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strains, and depression. She makes time to listen and to understand what is most upsetting.
Her 30 years as a clinician in California inform a calm, practical approach that focuses on everyday change. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She works with clients to pinpoint patterns that cause pain and finds small steps that lead to relief.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between appointments as well as deeper conversations about history and meaning. Dr. Graysen draws on several approaches to fit each person's needs.
She uses attachment-based ideas to map relationship patterns, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in each person's goals. She may also use psychodynamic perspectives and hypnotherapy when those tools seem useful. Her background includes long clinical experience in California and training through the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Human Sexuality Program.
That experience supports work on intimacy, sexual concerns, and the effects these issues can have on mood and self-esteem. She also works with concerns around aging, attachment difficulties, blended family tensions, and infidelity. Sessions aim to be practical and respectful.
Dr. Graysen offers coaching-style guidance when helpful and deeper therapy when people want to trace patterns back to earlier experiences. The focus remains on what will help a person feel more capable and connected in daily life.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and symptoms
Dr. Graysen uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns and emotional reactions. This approach helps people notice repeating cycles and try new ways of connecting that reduce conflict and loneliness.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is often helpful for reducing anxiety and improving mood by giving concrete skills to try between sessions. In addition, client-centered work keeps the conversation focused on each person's priorities and pace, offering support while people decide what matters most.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a person's goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process helps make sessions feel relevant and useful rather than one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good when visual feedback matters, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat can support short updates and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit around work and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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