About Susan
Susan Faix is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 26 years of experience in California. She focuses on practical help for common life struggles, including anxiety, depression, grief, and addictions. Susan aims to meet people where they are and offers steady, respectful support as they take steps toward change.
She starts by listening closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions are tailored to fit individual needs, so the conversation and plan look different for everyone.
Background and approach
That can mean learning skills to manage stress, looking at patterns in relationships, or building routines that improve sleep and eating. Susan combines approaches that focus on emotions, thoughts, and attachment. She uses client-centered work to follow a person's lead, cognitive behavioral techniques to address thinking and behavior, and emotionally-focused ideas to strengthen how people connect with themselves and others.
These methods are used to address a wide range of concerns, from parenting strain to career stress and trauma recovery. Her style is calm and direct. She respects each person's history and helps them set realistic goals.
Parents reading this will find clear, plain language and practical steps they can try between sessions. Overall, Susan offers a steady, experience-based approach that balances listening with hands-on strategies. She helps people cope with life changes and rebuild routines that support long-term wellbeing.
Using attachment, emotion work, and CBT online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape how people relate now. It helps when worry or relationship patterns make trust or closeness hard. Client-centered therapy puts the persons experience at the center - the therapist follows your lead and helps you name what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the best mix of these approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has helped or not helped before, and your preferences. Then she and the client decide, collaboratively, which tools and methods to try and when to shift course.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are helpful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer typing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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