About Susanne
Susanne Loar is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She helps people reduce stress and manage anxiety while navigating life changes. Her approach aims to build confidence and restore everyday joy through steady, practical work.
Susanne draws on a range of methods and keeps the conversation centered on each person's story. She pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns, and to how the body holds tension and feeling.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, usable steps alongside deeper reflection. She has long experience with addictive disorders and knows community and clinical resources for recovery. She helps people consider new routines and alternatives to substances or behaviors that cause harm.
That practical focus is paired with attention to meaning and values. Her background includes inpatient and outpatient substance use treatment, public mental health agencies, hospital inpatient mental health, and the neonatal intensive care unit. She also supervises associate social workers and substance use specialists, bringing practice insights to her clinical work.
Susanne values collaboration and listening. In sessions she invites curiosity about why symptoms exist and what they have done for a person. The aim is to discover strengths, try different strategies, and make steady changes that fit real life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that move life in a chosen direction, useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns in connection and emotion. It helps people understand how they relate to others and supports building more supported ways of being in relationships and around intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Susanne will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person's needs. The process is collaborative and adjustments are made as progress and challenges become clear.
Online sessions provide practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a visual connection helps. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or the camera feels like too much, while live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or fit a brief conversation into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent alongside work, family, and recovery routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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