About Susan
Susan Soares is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who offers a steady, down-to-earth presence for people feeling overwhelmed. She focuses on helping clients facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, stress, and relationship or family struggles. Her style is warm and relational, and she aims to create calm conversations where people feel heard and understood.
Susan draws on 17 years of clinical experience in a range of settings, including school-based work and adult counseling.
Background and approach
She uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage symptoms, improve everyday functioning, and rebuild connection with themselves and others. Sessions emphasize skills people can use between meetings. Her approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are used when they fit the client's goals. This mix allows her to focus on thoughts and behaviors while also attending to emotional and relational needs. Susan helps people with specific concerns such as parenting strain, caregiver stress, grief, anger, intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes.
She also supports work on attachment, communication problems, body image, and family of origin issues. Therapy aims to clarify values, build coping skills, and strengthen problem-solving. People who want a therapist who balances warmth with clear direction may find her approach helpful.
She meets clients where they are and works together with them to set achievable goals. Susan practices in Indiana and offers sessions that fit modern life, including multiple online formats.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on respectful listening and building a trusting connection. It helps people feel understood and guides conversations toward their own goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to change patterns that fuel anxiety or depression. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals and daily life. That way sessions stay practical and focused on what will help most in real situations.
Online therapy formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for an in-depth session similar to an office visit, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for brief check-ins, homework support, or when scheduling shorter contacts during a busy week. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and work it into everyday routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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