About Susan
Susan Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and mood concerns. She works with adults on issues like addiction, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Susan aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so clients can use what they learn right away.
Susan takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach in session. She listens first, then helps people set clear, achievable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on changing unhelpful thinking, strengthening relationships, and building skills to handle intense feelings. She also supports people navigating parenting challenges, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior tools, and mindfulness.
That mix lets her tailor sessions to what each person needs most. Sessions can include skill-building, communication practice, and guided reflection to increase self-awareness. Susan earned a Master of Social Work from Loyola University Chicago and holds an LCSW in Wisconsin.
Over twenty years she has supported people with eating and sleeping problems, addiction concerns, bipolar mood patterns, and intimacy or commitment struggles. She combines practical strategies with calm, steady support. People who come to Susan can expect clear goals, simple tools to try between sessions, and time to process difficult experiences.
She works with each person at a pace that fits their life and their goals.
Approaches and flexible online care
Attachment-based work looks at how past bonds influence current relationships and trust. It helps people who feel stuck in repeating patterns of closeness or distance and supports rebuilding more stable connections.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical steps to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Susan will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and pace. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting plans together over time.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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