About Susan
Susan Richey is a licensed marriage and family therapist with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, depression, and big life changes. Her tone is warm and straightforward and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Susan keeps conversations interactive and respectful. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and clarify next steps. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats each person as an individual with real needs.
Background and approach
Her work draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas, humanistic principles, psychodynamic perspectives, and rational-emotive methods. That mix lets her address thoughts and behaviors, current life problems, and underlying patterns that repeat over time. She adapts the conversation and plan to what each person needs in the moment.
Susan often helps people strengthen communication, navigate separation or divorce, and cope with loneliness or social anxiety. She also supports those working through forgiveness, self-worth, and the practical problems that come with life transitions. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from her California practice.
She frames therapy as a collaborative effort and works with clients to set realistic goals. If someone is ready to make changes, Susan focuses on small, manageable steps that build over time.
Approaches in online care and what they do
Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people navigate anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive-behavioral ideas focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and increase functioning. These techniques are useful for worry, social anxiety, and low mood.Humanistic approaches emphasize listening, empathy, and building self-worth. That work helps people reconnect with values, increase self-love, and make choices that fit their goals. Psychodynamic ideas look at recurring patterns and past influences to understand why certain issues keep coming up, which can free people to respond differently in relationships.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Susan will discuss what matters most to the client, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. She aims for a collaborative process that balances practical tools and deeper reflection.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for a full session with visual cues. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text let people check in between sessions and fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to get support from a licensed professional without rearranging a lot of daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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