About Susan
Susan Wildemann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 33 years of experience. She lives in New York and has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and relationship problems. Susan also has experience supporting individuals with intellectual disability and people managing chronic pain or caregiver stress.
Her style is warm and interactive. Sessions are built around respect and practical steps rather than labels. She listens first, then helps set clear goals for what to work on together.
Background and approach
Susan often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that increase worry or low mood. She blends mindfulness practices to help people notice stress and calm their bodies and minds. When trauma is part of the story she brings focused strategies to address painful memories and reactions.
She also uses solution-focused methods to find small, achievable changes that make day-to-day life easier. Psychodynamic ideas help uncover how past patterns continue to affect current relationships and feelings when that is useful to the work. Susan aims to tailor sessions to each person’s needs, balancing skill-building, real-time problem solving, and deeper reflection.
Her approach is practical and compassionate, helping people handle life transitions, parenting stress, sleep problems, or career and self-esteem concerns.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Susan often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that fuel anxiety or depression. CBT sessions focus on practical exercises, homework, and step-by-step plans that work well in video or phone meetings.She also integrates mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce stress and improve sleep. Mindfulness can be practiced during live video calls or reinforced through short text or audio reminders between sessions.
When trauma is present she brings trauma-focused techniques aimed at reducing the hold of painful memories and teaching grounding tools. These strategies are adapted for remote work so they remain manageable and paced to the individual's needs.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust plans based on what helps most. She treats the selection of techniques as ongoing work rather than a one-time choice.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions and keep momentum with short updates or homework questions. These options help make therapy more accessible and adaptable to daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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