About Susanne
Susanne Loar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of practice. She draws on broad experience in mental health and substance use care to help people regain balance and confidence. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at small changes that make daily life feel better.
She creates a calm, collaborative space where clients can talk through what matters most. Susanne pays attention to the reasons symptoms exist and what they might be trying to protect.
Background and approach
Together she helps people notice strengths and try new ways of coping that fit their life. Much of her work has focused on addictive disorders, and she is familiar with resources and strategies for changing problematic substance use and behaviors. She also supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, health-related concerns, and challenges with self-esteem and intimacy.
Her background includes inpatient and outpatient substance use treatment, hospital-based mental health work, and time in a neonatal intensive care unit. She also supervises associate social workers and substance use specialists, bringing practical clinical experience to her sessions. Sessions are grounded in practical tools and steady listening.
Susanne blends evidence-based methods with an interest in attachment and the body, helping clients build skills, steady emotions, and reconnect with what matters to them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises and homework, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and mood problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, helping people strengthen connection and emotional regulation in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then try methods that fit the client's needs. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel without losing continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English