About Susana
Susana Valdez is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and depression. She supports individuals facing relationship strains, family conflict, and the aftereffects of trauma and abuse. Susana offers a calm, accepting presence and practical steps to reduce distress.
Her approach centers on learning about each person's story and what matters most to them. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills for emotional regulation, and improving communication.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based techniques to address attachment concerns, feelings of abandonment, and patterns like avoidant or antisocial traits. Susana brings ten years of clinical experience in California to her work. She helps people cope with life transitions such as divorce, blended family adjustments, immigration stress, and workplace strain.
She also addresses issues around addiction, domestic violence, guilt, and loneliness. Therapy with her is practical and collaborative. Expect a mix of talking, problem solving, and learning new habits that can change daily routines.
She explains ideas plainly and checks in about what is or isn't working. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and take place online by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. People begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions based on availability.
Evidence-based methods and online flexibility
Susana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills people can practice between sessions. One approach emphasizes skills for managing anxiety and stress - learning ways to notice unhelpful thoughts, reduce physiological arousal, and build routines that ease daily pressure. This helps with social anxiety, panic, and ongoing worry.Another approach addresses attachment and relationship patterns by looking at how past experiences shape current connections. It teaches clearer communication, boundaries, and ways to repair misunderstandings, which is useful for relationship and family concerns. These approaches are explained in simple terms and applied to real-life situations.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging can keep progress going between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a workday, manage childcare, or maintain continuity while traveling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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