About Susan
Susan Haffert is a licensed clinical social worker in New Jersey with thirty years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem issues, career challenges, and addiction concerns.
Susan approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She adapts conversations and plans to fit what each person needs. Sessions are practical and grounded, aimed at helping people make changes that matter in daily life.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for grief, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, and anger management. She also addresses problems such as codependency, communication struggles, and midlife transitions. People facing obsessive thoughts, compulsions, or bipolar mood swings can find structured help as well.
Susan has long experience with caregiver stress, fatherhood issues, and the complicated feelings that come with divorce or separation. She helps people sort through guilt, shame, isolation, and the ripple effects of family problems. The goal is clearer thinking and steadier coping over time.
Susan offers sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs. If someone is ready to start, the process begins by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a brief questionnaire to match with her and schedule sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical skills and clearer thinking. One approach emphasizes learning coping skills and problem-solving strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress. This helps people handle day-to-day worries and regain a sense of control. Another approach centers on addressing mood patterns and behaviors through structured conversations and goal setting, which is useful for depression, bipolar mood management, and mood disorders.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will collaborate with the person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier to fit care into a busy life. Video calls are good when face-to-face interaction matters, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a voice check-in is preferred, and chat or texting can make brief check-ins or between-session support simpler. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, allow shorter or longer contacts as needed, and help people keep continuity of care regardless of location.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English