About Susan
Susan Gallagher is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Washington. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD challenges, depression, and grief. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She offers a calm space to talk through difficult emotions like anger, shame, and low self-esteem. She helps people cope with life changes and career pressures. She also addresses intimacy and relationship concerns as they relate to individual well-being.
Background and approach
Susan uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try new actions. She also draws on client-centered listening and solution-focused planning to keep sessions grounded and goal-oriented. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want clearer direction on change.
Across sessions she focuses on small, manageable steps. That can mean short experiments between meetings, reframing thoughts, or building routines that fit daily life. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
With eight years as an LMHC, she brings steady clinical experience without overcomplicating things. Susan aims to support people through both sudden loss and slow, persistent struggles. Her approach centers on helping people regain momentum and feel more in control of day-to-day life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that fit their values. This can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related overwhelm. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and practicing concrete alternatives, which can help with stress, low mood, and anger management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan works collaboratively to match methods to a client’s goals and preferences. She may draw from ACT, CBT, client-centered listening, or motivational strategies depending on what you need and what feels workable in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief exchanges to track progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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