About Susan
Susan Lipkin is a licensed independent social worker with 36 years of experience. She listens first and helps people figure out practical steps for stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and other struggles. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed find clearer choices.
She uses a client-centered stance, so sessions focus on what the person says they need. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one tool she often uses to address unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people notice patterns and rewrite problems that feel stuck. Susan has worked in independent practice, community mental health centers, psychiatric hospitals, and veterans' services. That range of settings shaped a practical, problem-focused style that adapts to each person's situation.
She has long experience helping people after trauma and abuse and supporting those coping with life transitions. In sessions she prioritizes clear goals and simple strategies. That might look like breaking a worry into smaller parts, testing a new behavior, or practicing short mindfulness exercises.
She aims to balance skill-building with space to talk about painful experiences. Susan holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work and the LISW credential. She practices in Ohio and provides services in English.
Her work includes many topics such as parenting, infertility-related distress, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue.
How Susan Uses Talk, Skills, and Mindfulness Online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the persons priorities first. The therapist listens closely and works from what the client says is most important, shaping sessions around their goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness; it can help with anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will talk with each person about their needs and goals and use approaches that fit those priorities. She often combines methods so sessions address immediate worries and longer-term patterns together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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