About Susana
Susana Garcia is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 14 years of clinical experience. She uses body-centered tools alongside established therapeutic methods to help people cope with stress and anxiety. Susana aims to make sessions practical and approachable for everyday life.
Her approach blends movement awareness with mindfulness and somatic techniques. Sessions focus on simple skills people can use between meetings - grounding, breathing, and noticing how the body reacts to stress.
Background and approach
These practices are paired with trauma-focused work when past events continue to affect daily functioning. Susana has worked extensively with LGBTQ concerns, gender dysphoria, and issues around sexuality and identity. She also supports people dealing with depression, relationship strain, prejudice and discrimination, and post-traumatic stress.
She takes a nonjudgmental stance toward alternative sexual cultures including BDSM and polyamory and helps clients integrate those aspects into healthier lives. In session she aims to be direct and calm, helping people name what they feel and try small, concrete changes. Mindfulness exercises and grounding practices are taught in clear, step-by-step ways.
Over time clients learn to notice patterns and choose different responses to stressors. Susana practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English. She emphasizes inclusivity and works with clients who want a strengths-based, body-informed path to managing anxiety and related concerns.
How embodied and trauma-aware methods work online
Susana uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Somatic Therapy in ways that translate to online work. DBT focuses on skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills are taught in short exercises and homework that fit video or text sessions. Somatic Therapy pays attention to bodily reactions to stress and teaches simple grounding and movement awareness. Those practices can be guided in video calls or supported through written prompts and short audio exercises.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that match a client's needs, goals, and comfort level. That may mean starting with mindfulness and DBT skills, adding somatic work when it feels helpful, or shifting focus as progress is made.
Online options offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow for guided movement awareness and face-to-face instruction. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier when on-camera work is not needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice skills in real-life moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Depression
- Gender dysphoria
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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