About Susan
Susan Hammond is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of practice in New York. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, build self-esteem, and find ways to cope with depression and life changes. Susan approaches each person with respect and calm.
She sees clients as the experts on their own lives and supports them as they take steps forward. Her style is down-to-earth and patient. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her, with clear, practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps clients notice patterns that get in the way. Mindfulness techniques are used to help people feel steadier in the moment. Susan draws on client-centered therapy to shape a collaborative relationship.
That means choices and goals come from the client, not from a preset plan. She encourages small, doable changes that build confidence over time. Over 30 years she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, grief, anger, career transitions, and mood disorders such as bipolar.
Additional focus areas include family of origin issues, guilt and shame, loneliness, life purpose, and women's issues. Her experience helps her tailor sessions to each person's needs. Susan works online using video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
People who want to begin can use the site's matching steps to find a good fit and schedule sessions when it works for them.
How client-centered and mindfulness approaches work online
Susan uses client-centered therapy to build a partnership with each person. That approach focuses on the client's goals and experiences, with the therapist listening and reflecting back what matters. It helps people who need a steady, respectful space to sort out decisions and feelings.She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple awareness skills. Those practices help with anxiety, stress, and emotional ups and downs by bringing attention to the present moment and reducing reactivity. Mindfulness work can be short and practical, useful between sessions as well as during them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will talk with each person about what feels most useful and adjust methods as goals change. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where options are tried and refined together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is helpful for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and messaging supports brief check-ins or written reflections. These choices give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent even with changing schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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