About Susan
Susan Soares, LCSW, focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and other concerns that make daily life harder. She speaks plainly and listens closely to each person's story. Her approach is warm and relational, aimed at making sessions feel calm and approachable from the first visit.
Susan uses practical methods to help clients notice patterns that keep problems going. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills for emotion regulation.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are also part of her skill set to support change and build focus. With 17 years in practice, Susan has worked in multiple settings, including school-based services and adult care. That variety shaped her ability to adapt to different needs and life stages.
She brings steady support and clear guidance rather than clinical distance. Sessions usually combine talking, skill-building, and short exercises clients can use between meetings. Susan emphasizes balancing mind, body, and spirit when clients want a fuller approach to wellbeing.
She helps parents handle parenting stress and supports people facing trauma, relationship troubles, or life transitions. People who prefer a relaxed conversational style often find her approachable. She aims to help clients set realistic goals, practice new ways of coping, and notice progress over time.
For those dealing with phobias, she helps break problems into small, manageable steps and works at a pace the client chooses.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience without judgment and building a trusting relationship. It helps when someone needs a listening space to sort through feelings and make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and phobias.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will check in about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together the client and therapist try methods, adjust them, and choose what feels most helpful over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text allow shorter, flexible exchanges and ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options give people more ways to practice skills and stay connected to support while working toward their goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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