About Susan
Susan Garner is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship problems, grief, anger, and major life changes. Her work is practical and down-to-earth, focused on clear goals and steady progress.
Susan listens first and helps you name what matters most. She frames problems as understandable responses to difficult events, family patterns, or attachment wounds. Together clients and Susan set realistic goals and build steps to reach them.
Background and approach
Her style blends familiar talk therapy with skills training. She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to help people improve connection and intimacy.
Susan includes mindfulness and body-mind awareness in sessions to help with stress and mood regulation. She works with issues that range from family of origin problems to communication breakdowns and codependency. Practical skill building for boundaries and self-esteem is a common part of her work.
Susan has provided clinical care in California for many years and holds the LMFT credential, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and will match therapeutic methods to each person's needs and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Susan uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes short exercises and homework that work well between sessions to track progress and practice new skills.She also draws on attachment-based therapy and emotionally-focused ideas to help people understand and improve connection. These approaches focus on how past relational patterns affect present relationships and can help with intimacy, communication, and family concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as therapy unfolds. That collaborative process helps pick the best mix of skills, reflection, and relational work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat or text messaging can support shorter, more frequent check-ins or when a written format helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, home, and travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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