- Relationship challenges
- Stress and anxiety
- Practical coping skills
About Susan
Susan Charney is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 26 years of experience helping people navigate relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers practical support for issues like intimacy problems, self-esteem, career transitions, grief, and stress. Her style is down-to-earth and focused on what a person needs right now.
Her sessions aim to sharpen communication skills and build clearer goals. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try small, doable changes. When trauma or past hurts come up, she uses focused methods to reduce their hold on daily life.
Susan draws on client-centered work that keeps the person’s goals front and center. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge negative thoughts and mindfulness practices to increase present-moment awareness. Solution-focused tools are used to set realistic steps toward change.
Her background includes long-term practice in Arizona supporting people through midlife transitions, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and workplace strain. She also addresses family of origin issues, blended family concerns, and challenges tied to fertility or cancer.
Sessions move at a pace chosen by the person in therapy. Susan emphasizes practical skills alongside emotional processing so clients leave with both insight and action. To begin, readers can use the site’s Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule based on availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first and focuses on listening, reflection, and support to help someone make decisions or find direction; it can help with relationship and self-esteem concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) works on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, often helping with grief and chronic stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences, and then suggest approaches to try. This is a collaborative process that can change as progress is made.
Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a schedule. They also let people use tools like worksheets, mindfulness recordings, and thought-tracking exercises between sessions to reinforce learning.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
Susan works with relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem, career and life transitions, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and many related concerns listed in her specialties.
How would you describe the therapeutic approach or style?
Her approach is client-centered and practical. She blends cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, solution-focused steps, and trauma-focused work depending on the issue.
How much experience does she have?
She has 26 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of personal and life challenges.
Where is the therapist licensed and located?
Susan is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, licensed in Arizona and practices from that state.
Which languages does she use in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps should I take to start therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.