About Susan
Susan Banco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of experience in New York. She earned her graduate degree from Adelphi University and has worked across community settings, schools, and day programs. She has also mentored other social workers and led counseling in individual and group formats.
Susan keeps her approach warm and conversational. She uses clear, practical methods so people can learn tools and build confidence. Sessions focus on what feels most useful and realistic for each person.
Background and approach
She helps people manage stress and anxiety and navigate relationship and parenting concerns. She also supports those facing life changes like divorce, school transitions, or shifts in finances. Work around substance use, career challenges, grief, and eating or intimacy-related issues is also offered.
Susan blends several approaches to meet each person’s needs. These include client-centered work that follows the person’s pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns, and motivational interviewing to clarify goals. She adapts methods to fit practical goals and day-to-day life.
Sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Communication style is supportive and straightforward so people can talk through options and pick steps that feel doable.
How Susan’s Approaches Work Online
Susan commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in sessions. Client-centered work means conversations follow the person’s pace and priorities, helping people feel heard while deciding next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses motivational interviewing to help clarify goals and increase willingness to try new approaches. That method is conversational and goal-focused, useful for changes like cutting back substance use or starting a new career path. Together these approaches give practical ways to handle stress and life transitions while respecting each person’s values.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will collaborate with each person to pick methods based on their goals and preferences. She adapts tools over time so sessions stay useful and focused on day-to-day progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use approaches that work for each person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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