About Susan
Susan Samek is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three decades of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and life changes. She brings a calm and gentle presence to sessions and focuses on listening so clients feel heard and understood. Her approach blends conversation and expressive methods to help clients make sense of difficult experiences and set achievable goals.
She frames therapy as a practical process. Susan helps people identify patterns and the roots of their reactions.
Background and approach
Then she works with them to try new ways of coping and to build resilience for day-to-day challenges. Art has long been part of her own life and her clinical work. She uses creative expression alongside talk-based methods to help people reflect and process emotions that can be hard to name.
This can make it easier to move through grief, trauma, or major life transitions. Her style is warm and thoughtful. She offers steady empathy and acceptance while also encouraging change when it will help reach a client’s goals.
Sessions focus on small, realistic steps rather than quick fixes. Based in Pennsylvania, Susan has worked in counseling for thirty years. She supports people facing addictions, relationship strain, self-esteem and intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, and depression.
Her work centers on helping people build understanding and practical skills to feel more capable in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Evidence-based talk therapy helps people name feelings, spot unhelpful patterns, and practice new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps to build lasting skills.Creative or expressive approaches use art and other methods to help people access emotions that are hard to put into words. This can make processing grief, trauma, or intense emotions feel more manageable and can uncover new ways to understand personal history.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will work with clients to match methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they decide whether more conversation, creative work, or a mix of both will best support progress.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing helps express thoughts. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while staying focused on practical steps for dealing with anxiety and other concerns.
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- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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