About Susan
Susan Guerra is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with deep experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, depression, or low self-esteem. She supports clients facing relationship or intimacy concerns, parenting strain, sleep or eating problems, ADHD, and career or life transitions. She works with people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood issues, and chronic illness challenges.
Susan keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps.
Background and approach
She listens without judgment and helps people figure out what matters most to them. Together they set clear, achievable goals and practice new skills that can be used in everyday life. Her clinical background spans 28 years in community and clinical settings.
Susan has provided care in home health, hospice, psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, residential substance-abuse programs, and shelters. That range gives her experience with complex medical and mental health situations and caregiver stress. Susan uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs.
She draws on cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based techniques to build tolerance for difficult feelings, and emotion-focused work to strengthen connection with one’s own needs. She also uses skills training for managing intense emotions and building healthier habits. People who choose Susan can expect a practical, compassionate style.
She aims to offer tools people can apply between sessions. The focus is on realistic steps toward more balanced mood, clearer priorities, and better daily coping.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take action that matches those values, even when uncomfortable feelings show up. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and responding to core emotions to strengthen emotional awareness and connection with oneself, which can support intimacy and relationship-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they choose or combine approaches so the sessions match the person’s needs and grow from there.
Online therapy with Susan uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, while phone calls can be easier if bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging fit quick check-ins, short coaching style work, or when written reflection helps. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people fit therapy into busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English