About Sueann
Sueann Yahne is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 25 years of professional experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and family conflict. Parents and people managing life changes often reach out when routines shift or old patterns resurface.
Her approach centers on treating each person as the expert on their own life. She listens for strengths and practical options you can use right away. Sessions focus on clear steps and real-world changes rather than jargon.
Background and approach
She has supported people through divorce and separation, parenting challenges, and conflicts that come from family of origin issues. Communication problems, codependency, and control issues are common topics she addresses in sessions. Other areas she has worked with include attachment concerns, infidelity, fatherhood issues, guilt and shame, sexual matters, and people with intellectual disability or personality disorders.
She aims to help clients untangle patterns that keep causing pain. Sueann emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes. She helps clients break down problems into manageable steps and build on small successes.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and relationships. Cognitive approaches look at how thoughts affect feelings and actions and help people build different responses to stress and anxiety. Relational approaches concentrate on communication patterns and attachment issues to improve how people connect and set boundaries.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter, shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to have brief check-ins, homework support, or more frequent contact between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English