About Susan
Susan Galewaler is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience. She offers steady, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Susan listens closely and creates space for honest conversation.
She encourages clients to name what feels hard and to try small, workable steps forward. Many people come for help with family conflict, attachment worries, and trauma or abuse recovery. Her background includes work with custody-related family issues and co-authoring an educational book used by family therapists for assessment.
Background and approach
That experience informs a clear, calm approach when questions about family roles and caregiving arise. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, improving communication, and managing strong emotions. Susan helps clients tackle problems like abandonment, guilt, control issues, and isolation with straightforward strategies that fit day-to-day life.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness or pain and those navigating midlife challenges or veteran and armed forces concerns. Conversations are paced to match each person’s needs and comfort. To begin, Susan encourages a practical first step: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
She works in English and accepts international clients while practicing from Texas.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Two evidence-based approaches commonly used by experienced counselors are practical skills-focused work and trauma-informed strategies. Skills-focused work teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, improving communication, and handling stress in daily life. Trauma-informed strategies help people process difficult experiences at a pace that feels manageable and reduce the ways past hurt shows up now.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that match those needs. Adjustments are made over time so the plan fits how a person responds and what they want to change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed, and chat or text can suit brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while staying connected to a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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