About Susan
Susan Haffert is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience based in New Jersey. She focuses on stress and anxiety alongside concerns like relationships, self-esteem, career strain, and mood changes. She uses practical conversation to help people name what feels hard now.
Sessions center on real-life problems such as worry, low motivation, and struggles at work. She aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Background and approach
Her approach is collaborative. Susan works with clients to shape a plan that fits their situation and goals. This can mean setting small steps, practicing new ways to manage strong feelings, or finding clearer ways to communicate with others.
Susan has helped people facing grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and family difficulties. She also addresses caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and eating or obsessive behaviors. Her broad experience includes mood disorders and issues like isolation, guilt, and midlife transitions.
Sessions may focus on immediate coping skills or longer-term patterns that keep problems repeating. Susan encourages steady progress at a pace that feels doable. If you are thinking about starting therapy, she aims to make the process understandable and manageable.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on clear, research-backed ways to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. One common method teaches practical coping skills for managing anxiety and stress, such as breath work, gradual exposure to feared situations, and steps to break worry cycles. These techniques help people regain confidence and handle day-to-day demands more easily.Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and behavior to change what no longer works. This helps with communication problems, codependency, and repeating cycles that increase shame or isolation. The therapist uses this work to build healthier habits and clearer boundaries over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan together as you make progress. You and the therapist decide what feels most helpful and practical.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats that fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when more depth is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is wanted. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief coaching, follow-ups, or when writing out thoughts helps clarify feelings. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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