About Susan
Susan Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of clinical experience. She offers down-to-earth support for people coping with anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, trauma, mood shifts, and substance concerns. Her approach centers on practical steps clients can use between sessions.
Susan draws on straightforward methods to help people notice patterns and try different responses. She listens closely and helps set clear, manageable goals. Clients often work on changing unhelpful thoughts, building skills for emotional regulation, and improving connection with others.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Master's degree in social work and 20 years of practice in Wisconsin. That time has included work with concerns such as self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career stress, and the effects of past abuse. She also supports people facing issues involving attachment, abandonment, codependency, and blended family dynamics.
Susan uses a mix of cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices. In sessions she helps people translate insights into small, doable changes. Therapy often focuses on goal setting, skill practice, and noticing progress over time.
Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. New clients typically start by naming a few immediate priorities and then building a plan that fits their life. For many, that structure makes it easier to see steady change and regain a sense of control.
Approach and access in online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and safety with others. It helps people understand how early bonds shape reactions now and supports building healthier connections and trust.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It breaks problems into manageable steps, teaches practical coping skills, and targets worries, mood problems, and unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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