About Susana
Susana Mejia-Vargas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers bilingual counseling in English and Spanish. She focuses on helping people cope with anxiety and stress tied to past hurts, life transitions, and ongoing family challenges. Her style is direct and compassionate, and she treats each person as the expert on their own experience.
With four years of clinical experience, she listens for how trauma, loss, or relationship strains affect daily life.
Background and approach
Susana pays attention to symptoms like sleep problems, constant irritability, and low mood so she can help people name what is happening. She makes clinical recommendations while inviting clients to guide the work. Sessions are practical and goal oriented.
Susana helps clients break down big problems into manageable steps. She focuses on improving communication, building coping skills for stress and anxiety, and strengthening resilience over time. She has notable experience helping people connected to adoption and foster care navigate grief, identity questions, and attachment concerns.
She also supports those dealing with family conflict, caregiver strain, body image struggles, and the emotional fallout from separation or domestic violence. People can expect active listening and straightforward feedback. Therapy may include exploring how past events shape current behavior, practicing new ways to handle distress, and identifying supports that help life feel more manageable.
Susana encourages small, steady changes that add up to better daily functioning and a clearer sense of purpose.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Susana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding how past events affect current feelings and behavior. One common method she uses is cognitive-behavioral style work, which helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and practice clearer, more helpful responses to stress and anxiety. This approach is useful for sleep problems, constant worry, and low mood.She also incorporates narrative-minded work that helps people tell and reframe their personal story, which can be especially useful for those dealing with adoption, identity, or grief. That kind of work aims to reduce the power of painful memories by placing them in context and highlighting strengths.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options with each person, weigh what feels right, and adjust methods as goals change. Clients are invited to share preferences so the plan fits their needs and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text sessions can be helpful for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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