About Susan
Rev. Susan Sciarratta is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania. She helps people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, depression, and coping with life changes.
She also supports clients facing low self-esteem, motivation problems, and compassion fatigue. Susan brings 12 years of counseling experience and a prior 20-year career as an engineer to her work. That background shaped her practical problem-solving approach and attention to detail.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person's goals and situation rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She treats people with respect and sensitivity while helping them identify small, workable steps forward.
Conversations often focus on building confidence, improving communication, and coping with stressful transitions. She has worked with issues tied to aging and caregiver stress, attachment concerns, hospice and end-of-life matters, postpartum mood changes, and feelings of isolation. Susan also addresses career questions, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and parenting struggles when those come up in therapy.
People seeking a calm, practical collaborator may find her approach helpful. She aims to empower clients to try new behaviors, practice different ways of thinking, and build skills that reduce distress. Susan frames change as a step-by-step process and supports clients as they try out new strategies.
Approaches and online options for managing anxiety and stress
Evidence-based techniques often used to address anxiety involve learning practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. One common approach teaches ways to notice anxious thoughts, test them, and try new responses so worrying has less control over daily life. This helps with persistent worry, panic, and stress about future events.Another helpful method focuses on building coping skills and routine actions. That can include short behavioral experiments, breathing and grounding exercises, and setting small manageable goals to rebuild confidence. These techniques suit people facing life transitions, grief, caregiver strain, or burnout from compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to pick and adapt methods based on their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in real life. Goals are revisited and the plan changes as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to access care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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