About Susan
Susan Owen is a licensed social worker practicing in South Carolina. She has 35 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Susan focuses on practical steps to cope with life changes and hard emotions.
She meets people where they are and moves at a pace that feels comfortable. Conversations are straightforward and respectful. The goal is to find tools that fit each person’s life and rhythm.
Background and approach
Susan uses a mix of approaches depending on the issue and the person. She draws on client-centered work to follow each person’s concerns, cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and brief, goal-focused methods when people want quick, practical change. Mindfulness and motivational techniques are added when helpful.
Sessions can focus on everyday worries like work stress or seasonal low mood. She also supports people facing grief, caregiving strain, aging-related questions, and issues tied to family of origin or life purpose. Susan pays attention to guilt, shame, and patterns like codependency that get in the way.
Her style is calm and practical. She offers options for video or phone meetings and adapts the plan as progress happens. Taking a first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step clearer and more manageable.
Approaches and how they work online
Client-centered work focuses on understanding what matters most to the person and building the conversation around their goals. It helps when someone wants a supportive space to talk things through and decide what to try next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it offers concrete steps to try between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy brings simple attention exercises and grounding practices into everyday life. It can help reduce worry, manage low mood, and calm intense reactions by training more present, steady responses.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to find useful tools rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions work when bandwidth or screen time is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options help people fit sessions into busy lives and keep continuity when schedules change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina, Virginia
- Languages
- English