About Susan
Susan Charney is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience helping people through relationship struggles, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers straightforward support for concerns like intimacy issues, self-esteem, career stress, grief, trauma, and parenting strain. Susan uses a mix of practical tools and steady listening.
Sessions focus on clear goals, better communication, and coping skills that fit everyday life. She helps people name patterns that get in the way and try small changes that can make a real difference.
How Susan works
Her work often includes addressing body image, eating concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and the pressures of blended families. She also supports people facing fertility problems, cancer-related distress, or aging and geriatric issues. First responder stress and compassion fatigue are additional areas she understands.
Susan draws on client-centered methods to keep the person's values and choices central. She also uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking, mindfulness to build present-moment awareness, solution-focused tools for concrete next steps, and trauma-focused approaches when past events continue to cause harm. Clients can expect an approachable, respectful style.
Susan aims to help people feel clearer about their options and more able to take them. Her practice is based in Arizona and conducted in English by an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker).
Susan lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Susan works with
The areas below are the ones Susan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Susan commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral approaches in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means the conversation focuses on the person's own goals and values while the therapist follows their lead to build understanding and self-direction. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce stress and improve mood.She also draws on mindfulness techniques when people want tools for managing anxiety and staying present, and solution-focused ideas to set short-term, concrete goals. Finding the right mix is part of the work. Susan will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches best match their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for faster check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum while working on change.
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