About Susan
Susan Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship pain, and addiction concerns. She offers straightforward, compassionate support for mood challenges, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem. Her manner is practical and focused on steps people can take right now to feel steadier.
With 20 years of experience in the field, she uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based work, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness to shape sessions.
Background and approach
Susan helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns, learn new ways to handle strong emotions, and repair trust and connection where it has been damaged. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Clients can expect collaboration on clear goals, practice of new skills between meetings, and regular check-ins about progress.
Susan also addresses practical life stresses like sleep, parenting strain, career transitions, and caregiver burnout. She brings attention to how early relationships affect current patterns. That focus can help with abandonment, attachment, family of origin issues, and blended family concerns.
She also works with intimacy difficulties, communication problems, and complicated grief. Susan uses motivational techniques to support change when substance use or other compulsive behaviors are part of the picture. She guides people through coping strategies for anger, bipolar mood shifts, and co-occurring conditions while keeping goals realistic and achievable.
How Susan’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Attachment-based work pays attention to how earlier relationships shape current reactions. Online sessions can help people recognize patterns, practice new ways of relating, and repair trust in real time. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In online sessions clients learn to spot unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try new behaviors between meetings to see what changes. Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Susan will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to match each person’s goals, needs, and comfort. That means trying practical skills, tracking progress, and adjusting the plan together as needed. Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t wanted. Live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent work into a packed schedule or manage follow-up in the moments it matters most.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English