About Suzanne
Suzanne Boak is a licensed clinical social worker with 32 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. Suzanne works with individuals who are navigating big life changes or recovering from past hurt.
She uses a straightforward, compassionate style. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. Suzanne helps clients name problems, try small changes, and build practical ways to cope day to day.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work in Michigan and time practicing overseas. That experience shaped her ability to support people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also brings experience helping those who struggle with communication, commitment questions, and family-of-origin concerns.
Suzanne uses a mix of approaches to fit the person and the problem. She draws on client-centered work to follow a person’s lead, solution-focused methods to set clear short-term goals, and EMDR when trauma work is appropriate. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support change and the Gottman Method for relationship skills.
People working with Suzanne can expect practical tools and steady support. Sessions aim to improve coping, reduce overwhelm, and strengthen relationships. The goal is clearer choices and better everyday functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and what to expect online
Suzanne uses client-centered work to follow each person's priorities and help them feel heard. This approach centers on listening, reflecting, and supporting whatever goals the client brings, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and self-esteem concerns.She also offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when trauma symptoms are present. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of disturbing memories and can help people who carry trauma-related distress into daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Suzanne will talk with clients about their goals and try methods that fit their needs. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps the person make steady progress.
Online therapy gives flexibility in how to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection, brief coaching, or check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use the format that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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