About Susan
Susan Soares is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family concerns. She welcomes people who feel stuck after loss, big life changes, or problems with intimacy and self-esteem. Her style is warm and down-to-earth to make tough conversations easier to start.
Susan uses straightforward, practical approaches in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and small steps to reach them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what can change next. Her background includes work in school-based settings and many years supporting adults with mood and trauma-related issues. She brings 17 years of clinical experience to sessions and understands how stress can affect daily life, work, and relationships.
Susan blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people break patterns and build new habits. In sessions she balances sensitivity with direct feedback so clients feel understood and can try different coping strategies.
She supports parents facing parenting stress and caregivers dealing with burnout. Practical skills, short-term goals, and steady support are common parts of her work. People who want a calm, relational approach that still focuses on results may find her style helpful.
She sees clients in Indiana and conducts sessions using multiple online formats to fit different schedules.
How therapeutic approaches shape online support
Susan combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people clarify what matters to them and change patterns that get in the way. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so clients feel understood and able to try new steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings run high. DBT teaches simple practices for handling intense emotions, improving communication, and staying steady during hard moments. Choosing which approach to emphasize is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together based on needs, goals, and what feels most useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different schedules and preferences. Video is good for longer work and visual cues, phone calls fit quick check-ins or lower bandwidth, live chat can help with short problem-solving, and messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, and busy days while still using the same therapeutic tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English