About Susan
Susan Broderick is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 20 years of experience. She emphasizes a warm, encouraging approach that helps people take meaningful steps forward. Her style aims to make conversations straightforward and nonjudgmental for those seeking help.
Using a client-centered stance, she focuses on the person rather than a strict technique. She also draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help identify unhelpful thinking and practical solution-focused steps to set short-term goals.
Background and approach
This mix is commonly used for concerns like anxiety, depression, bipolar mood shifts, and ADHD-related struggles. Susan has worked across a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, panic, chronic pain and illness, and feelings of isolation. She also supports people facing life transitions such as midlife change, pregnancy and childbirth issues, and questions about purpose.
Her experience gives her a broad perspective on mood disorders and impulsivity-related problems. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented. People who come to her often leave with concrete tools they can use between meetings, such as strategies for managing panic attacks or techniques to reduce anxious thinking.
She favors clear steps and small experiments that can be tested in daily life. Susan invites people who are ready to try therapy to begin with a simple intake and matching process. She works in Illinois and conducts sessions in English for those who prefer remote formats as well as phone or messaging options.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Susan uses client-centered work to build a supportive connection online, meeting people where they are and following their goals. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting back what matters most, and adjusting the pace to fit each person’s needs.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors between sessions. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and many everyday stressors because it breaks problems into manageable steps. Solution-focused techniques are applied to set clear, short-term goals and try practical changes quickly, which can be especially helpful for people looking for immediate tools and direction.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adjust the methods used over time. That means clients help choose what feels most useful, whether more reflective conversations or hands-on skill work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options create flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping progress consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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