About Susan
Susan Zapatha is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who helps people facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, grief, stress, anxiety, and ADHD. She writes plainly and listens closely so clients can name what is most troubling. Her approach is warm and steady, focused on practical steps and clearer understanding.
With 28 years of experience, she draws on a mix of methods to match each person’s needs. Sessions aim to make everyday problems easier to manage.
Background and approach
Conversations cover feelings, patterns, and choices people can try between meetings. Susan emphasizes openness and nonjudgment in the room. She supports people working through parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, addictive behaviors, and mood conditions like depression and bipolar symptoms.
She also helps with career stress, sleep difficulties, anger, and low self-esteem. Her background includes work with attachment issues, adoption and foster care topics, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger Syndrome. She also addresses codependency, commitment and control issues, and coping after disasters.
Clients can expect a collaborative style that combines listening with skills practice. She explains ideas clearly and offers doable tools for everyday life. The focus is on steady progress, one step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice how they relate to others and practice different ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In teletherapy CBT can be used to break down problems, set clear goals, and try small experiments between sessions to change habits and reactions.Choosing an approach is part of the work. Susan will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts methods over time so sessions stay useful and relevant to what the client wants to change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different places, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work when travel or scheduling would otherwise interrupt progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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