About SUSAN
SUSAN SCHANEN is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of practice in Florida. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. Her work also includes support around adoption and foster care concerns.
She aims to create an open, respectful space where people can talk through hard things and start making changes. Susan uses a warm and interactive style in sessions. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats clients with sensitivity and compassion.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person's situation so the plan fits their life and goals. In practice she blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with trauma-focused approaches. That combination helps address anxious thoughts, depressive patterns, and the lasting effects of past trauma.
Sessions can include practical skills, coping strategies, and processing of difficult experiences. People can expect a collaborative process that moves at a comfortable pace. Susan listens first to understand what matters most and then suggests steps to try between sessions.
Progress is tracked in simple, tangible ways so clients notice change. Her background in individual and family therapy informs a flexible approach to common day-to-day struggles. She supports parents navigating adoption and foster care related stress and helps people build clearer thinking and steadier moods.
The focus is always on workable tools and steady support.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Susan uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT often involves identifying anxious or negative thoughts, testing them against reality, and practicing new ways of responding to everyday stressors.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy to address the effects of past harm. This approach helps people process traumatic memories, reduce overwhelming reactions, and build coping skills to feel steadier day to day.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Susan will listen to goals and preferences, discuss options, and try methods that fit each person. Adjustments are made along the way so work in sessions aligns with what the client needs and wants.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer frequent touchpoints and quick check-ins between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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