About Susan
Susan Lockard, LPC, helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, and difficult life changes. She works with adults facing depression, low self-esteem, panic attacks, and the emotional strain of caregiving or grief. Her approach is practical and straightforward.
Sessions focus on what feels most urgent for the person in front of her. Susan uses tried-and-true methods to help people manage symptoms and build new skills. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness exercises and emotion-regulation skills are part of many sessions when they fit a client's goals. Her background includes 16 years of clinical experience as a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania. That experience informs how she supports people through trauma, dissociation, and feelings of emptiness.
She also helps people address family of origin issues, communication problems, and struggles with identity or belonging. In sessions Susan often prioritizes clear goals and small, achievable steps. She works with people on building coping strategies for panic, managing impulsivity, and repairing strained relationships.
Therapy can include focused skill practice, guided reflection, and tailored action plans. People who come to Susan can expect a calm, respectful atmosphere and a collaborative process. She aims to help each person identify values and move toward more meaningful daily routines.
Her work is grounded in steady support and practical problem solving.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and skill building
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience, helping them set goals and find their strengths. It is useful for people who want a supportive space to talk about anxiety, grief, or life purpose.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Sessions teach practical tools to challenge anxious thinking and to build predictable routines that reduce panic and improve mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It can help people who struggle with impulsivity, intense emotions, or difficulty managing relationships.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set priorities and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill teaching. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and get shorter, frequent supports. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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