About Susan
Susan “Sue” Wildermann is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with 18 years of experience. She combines practical strategies with a warm, down-to-earth manner. Sue approaches therapy as a team effort and focuses on helping people make concrete changes in their daily lives.
Sue uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, compulsive behaviors, and grief. She also supports those coping with trauma, domestic violence, and major life changes such as divorce or loss.
Background and approach
Clients often seek her out for help with family and relationship problems. She works with parents and grandparents on parenting challenges and blended family concerns. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
Sue draws on goal-focused methods like cognitive behavioral and solution-focused strategies alongside client-centered and narrative ideas. Emotionally-focused work is used when relationships and attachment issues are central. The aim is to build practical skills and clearer perspectives so people can handle everyday pressures better.
Her background includes helping people recover from community-wide trauma, such as the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In sessions she is straightforward, nonjudgmental, and focused on empowerment. People who want a collaborative helper who offers clear steps and steady support may find her approach helpful.
Approach-driven care you can access online
Sue commonly uses client-centered methods that focus on the person’s experience and priorities. This approach means sessions begin by listening closely and letting the client set the pace and goals. It helps people who want to be heard and guided rather than directed.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and teach practical coping skills. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and patterns that get in the way of daily life. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationship patterns and attachment worries are central, helping people name feelings and try new ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods collaboratively, and adjust based on what feels useful. Clients and the therapist decide which strategies match the person’s needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets people see nonverbal cues for deeper conversation, phone can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options offer flexibility so therapy fits into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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