About Susan
Susan LeClair is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 22 years of clinical experience. She works with people who are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and offers steady, respectful support. She communicates directly and without judgment so clients can talk about hard things and find practical next steps.
She has worked in crisis intervention and with people facing depression, grief, trauma, domestic violence, and relationship problems. Her background includes helping people through divorce, parenting transitions, adoption and fertility issues, and career or life changes.
Background and approach
That variety has shaped an approach that focuses on clear goals and usable strategies. Susan uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients identify what they want to change and the small, realistic steps that move them toward those goals. Sessions often zero in on strengths, past successes, and what can be done differently right away.
This keeps work concrete and action-oriented rather than abstract. She aims to be ethical and nonjudgmental in sessions and will suggest a referral when a different kind of support is a better fit. Susan emphasizes building trust so people feel able to confront painful topics and try new ways of coping.
People come for help with a wide range of concerns including LGBT-related questions, intimacy issues, parenting strain, ADHD, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice is based in Connecticut and she conducts sessions in English.
Solution-Focused Care Online
Susan practices Solution-Focused Therapy, which centers on identifying specific goals and the small actions that move people toward those goals. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions because it keeps work practical and focused on what changes right now.Her online work follows the same practical logic as in-person sessions. She and the client will look at current strengths, past successes, and what a preferred future would look like. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - she will listen to the client’s needs and adjust techniques as goals and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick planning, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and varying comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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