About Susan
Susan Cooper is a licensed clinical social worker in New Mexico with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Susan aims to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what they are facing.
She works with individuals dealing with depression, eating concerns, addictions, and relationship or family stresses. Susan also supports people coping with sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career changes, and bipolar mood issues.
Background and approach
Compassion fatigue and caregiver stress are part of her practice as well. Susan draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person. Sessions emphasize practical steps and clear goals so progress feels tangible.
She encourages skill-building that can be used between sessions to manage symptoms and handle difficult moments. Her work also addresses specific life experiences such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, and chronic illness or pain. Attachment patterns, body image, and blended family adjustments are other areas she helps people talk through.
Susan offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging sessions to make therapy fit varied schedules and needs. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on availability.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Many clinicians use evidence-based techniques focused on changing thoughts and behaviors to relieve symptoms and improve daily functioning. Cognitive-style approaches help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice different responses when anxiety or low mood arise. Skills-based strategies teach concrete coping tools for stress, sleep problems, cravings, and anger so people have options between sessions.Other approaches prioritize understanding relationships and attachment patterns to improve how someone connects with others. These methods look at past and present relationship dynamics to reduce repeating painful patterns and to build more satisfying bonds and routines.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss what’s most important to the person, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps choose strategies that feel useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth work when seeing facial cues helps. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins and ongoing support without scheduling a full call.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English