About Susan
Susan Ramsey-French is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and depression. She focuses on practical ways to cope with anger, relationship strain, low self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, and major life changes. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making sessions feel manageable for busy people.
Susan spends time listening first to understand each person's story. She uses clear techniques from well-known approaches to help reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings, like grounding, reframing thoughts, and small behavioral changes. Her work includes helping people process traumatic events and abuse, and addressing related issues such as dissociation, domestic violence, and attachment wounds. She also supports those facing compassion fatigue, burnout, or the emotional fallout of disasters.
The focus is on step-by-step progress rather than quick fixes. Susan blends client-centered conversation with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She also offers EMDR-informed strategies when appropriate and uses motivational interviewing to help people make changes that matter to them.
The aim is to match methods to individual goals and pace. With eight years of experience, Susan brings practical experience and steady support to sessions. She works with adults in Florida and conducts meetings in English.
People new to therapy will find straightforward guidance on next steps and what to expect from the process.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful partnership. In online sessions this means Susan gives space for the person to lead, and she reflects back what matters most to help clarify goals and next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions include simple exercises to notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, depression, or anger symptoms.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to lessen the hold of traumatic memories. When it fits a person's needs, elements of EMDR can be adapted for video or phone work to help process distressing events safely over time.
Susan views choosing an approach as a team effort. She will talk through options, try methods that match a person's goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The client’s needs and preferences guide which techniques are used and how sessions are paced.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and easier access from different locations. Video calls allow visual connection and richer interaction, phone sessions can be quicker or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can work well for brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still using the same therapeutic tools as in-person work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English