About Susan
Susan Soares is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Indiana with 17 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Her manner is warm and relational, and she aims to make sessions feel casual and approachable for someone taking a first step toward help.
Susan blends talk-based support with practical tools. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thought patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and dialectical skills are used to help manage strong emotions and build steadier coping habits. Her background includes school-based work and experience with adults across a range of concerns. That mix informed a flexible style that can suit busy parents, professionals, and others juggling multiple demands.
She often focuses on how mood, body, and daily routines interact. In sessions she keeps a balance of sensitivity and directness. Conversations are meant to be honest but not rushed.
Susan helps people set small, doable goals and practices between meetings to build momentum. She also addresses relationship and family issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiving stress, and grief. For clients managing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, or compassion fatigue she uses practical strategies alongside supportive dialogue.
Susan encourages people to notice small changes and to take steady steps toward what they want. When someone is ready to begin, she offers collaborative support and ongoing coaching to help them move forward. Her approach aims to be realistic, calm, and focused on real-life progress.
Combining practical approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where the client sets the pace and goals. It helps when someone needs acceptance and steady support while they sort things out. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and uses small experiments and coping skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and relationship conflicts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that fit their goals and daily life. That choice can shift over time as needs change, and she mixes methods to match what is most useful in the moment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support brief updates or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options give flexibility so people can keep consistent progress alongside work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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