About Susan
Susan Wildemann is a licensed clinical social worker with more than three decades of practice. She earned a Master of Social Work from Boston University and provides therapy from New York. Her work covers many common concerns including depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship struggles.
Susan uses a warm, interactive style in sessions. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while avoiding stigmatizing labels. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
She works with people facing trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, parenting strain, and career stress. Additional focus areas include chronic pain, caregiver stress, intellectual disability, post-traumatic stress, and traumatic brain injury. She also addresses bipolar symptoms, anger, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
Susan draws from several therapeutic approaches to shape treatment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and actions. Mindfulness practices build present-moment awareness to reduce reactivity.
Solution-focused techniques help set clear, achievable goals. Her sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. People can expect to talk through immediate concerns, try specific strategies between sessions, and reassess goals as they make progress.
The emphasis is on what helps day to day and on building skills to cope with future challenges.
Approaches You Can Use Online
Susan commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of thinking and behavior; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which can help with sleep and ongoing worry.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions begin by clarifying what someone wants to change, then trying approaches and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, brief skill practice, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping focus on practical strategies and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English