About Suzanne
Suzanne Kramer is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts with 16 years of professional experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, and concerns around intimacy and self-esteem. Suzanne aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and purposeful.
She focuses on helping people notice their strengths and use those strengths to meet current challenges. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. Suzanne centers the person's experience and supports them as they figure out what matters most.
Background and approach
Suzanne uses practical techniques alongside open listening. She draws on approaches that help people spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. The work can include setting small goals, experimenting with new routines, and practicing clearer communication.
Her style is collaborative. Suzanne invites people to set the pace and priorities of therapy while offering guidance and tools based on each person's needs. She aims to make therapy useful between sessions as well as during them.
People often come for help with specific problems like social anxiety, obsessive thoughts, phobias, or seasonal mood changes. Suzanne also helps with process addictions, hoarding-related struggles, eating and food issues, and life transitions such as midlife questions and money stress. She speaks English and practices in Massachusetts.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects back what is said, and helps people clarify values and goals. This approach is helpful when someone wants a supportive space to make sense of their situation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing new behaviors, and practicing skills between sessions. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, phobias, and obsessive concerns.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Suzanne will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit those aims. She adapts methods over time so the work stays practical and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging make it possible to exchange thoughts in writing when that feels more comfortable or when schedules require flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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