About Susan
Susan Clark is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, evidence-based work for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and attention challenges. Susan aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for people who are worried or overwhelmed.
Her background includes many settings where she supported clients through loss, trauma, and everyday struggles with focus and memory. She emphasizes early intervention and often helps young people build skills that carry into adulthood.
Background and approach
That perspective informs how she shapes sessions for each person she sees. Susan adapts evidence-based therapeutic techniques to the needs of each client. She explains goals clearly and breaks down steps into manageable tasks.
Sessions are meant to feel safe and, when possible, even a little hopeful and encouraging. She also has experience addressing related concerns such as attachment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, and communication or control problems. Susan pays attention to how these issues intersect with core concerns like anxiety or trauma.
Therapy can involve short skill-building exercises, talking through difficult memories, or planning small changes to daily routines. Susan supports people through each step and checks in on progress as treatment unfolds.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many clients benefit from techniques that focus on skills and problem solving. One approach Susan uses teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and behavior experiments. These tools help reduce overwhelming feelings and build confidence in everyday situations.She also uses trauma-informed methods that focus on gentle processing of difficult memories and building safety and routines. This kind of work can help people who have experienced abuse or loss feel more steady and in control of day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experiences, and preferences before deciding which techniques to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, or shorter sessions that fit a busy day. These options help people fit care into school, work, or family routines while keeping momentum in treatment.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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