About Susan
Susan Broderick is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She brings a calm, encouraging style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and make practical changes in daily life. She often helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and trauma.
She also supports those facing chronic pain, illness, or disability and people coping with isolation, impulsivity, or panic attacks.
Background and approach
Women's issues, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, and questions about life purpose and midlife shifts are also within her focus. Her approach is client-centered, which means she listens first and follows the person’s lead. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot thinking patterns that keep problems going.
She also applies solution-focused methods to set clear, reachable goals and build small steps toward change. Susan aims to make sessions straightforward and practical. Conversations are framed around what will make a difference in day-to-day life.
She helps people try new strategies, notice what works, and adjust as needed. She has worked across a wide span of ages and situations, bringing two decades of practice to each case. People who prefer a warm, structured, and goal-minded approach will find a steady presence in her work.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding first. It gives people space to share their thoughts and feelings without pressure, which can help with anxiety, depression, and trauma recovery. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thinking patterns and behaviors and offers practical techniques to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood, and unhelpful worry. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set clear, short-term goals and builds small steps toward them, useful for stress, problem-solving, and improving daily routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the work Susan does with each person. She will talk through needs, goals, and preferences, and together decide which methods to try first. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made or goals shift.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or medical appointments while keeping the focus on practical, usable tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English