About Susan
Susan Charney is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship and intimacy issues, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with stress, self-esteem struggles, parenting concerns, and work or career questions.
Susan keeps sessions straightforward and practical. She listens first, then helps people set small goals they can try between meetings. Conversations focus on what is happening now and steps that lead toward clearer communication and better coping.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses deeper patterns that show up in relationships and family life. She helps people understand how past experiences affect present choices and reactions. That background supports work on boundaries, commitment questions, and blended family concerns.
Susan draws on several approaches to fit each person’s needs. She uses client-centered methods to follow the individual’s pace, cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and trauma-focused tools when past harm affects daily functioning. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used to build calm and identify concrete next steps.
People looking for help with caregiver stress, chronic illness, fertility or aging issues will find a practical, steady clinician. She also supports concerns around body image, eating struggles, and compassion fatigue. Her practice emphasizes clear goals, regular check-ins, and problem-solving suited to busy lives.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on following a person’s lead, offering empathy, and building trust. Online sessions let conversations stay focused on what matters most to the individual and move at a comfortable pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. This makes it easy to work on specific problems over video or phone with homework between sessions. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on reducing the hold of past harm and building coping tools for present life. Online formats can support steady, paced work on traumatic memories while practicing grounding and regulation skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will collaborate with each person to test and adapt methods based on symptoms, goals, and what feels tolerable. Progress is checked regularly and plans change when needed, so the client helps shape which strategies are used.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English