About Susan
Susan Clark is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with nine years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD. Susan aims to make sessions feel comfortable and approachable for people of all ages.
She emphasizes early support for young people when challenges first appear. Susan draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person's needs.
How Susan works
She meets children, adolescents, and young adults who are dealing with trauma, victimization, sex trafficking recovery, or common childhood behavioral challenges. Sessions are practical and paced to the individual, with attention to building coping skills and resilience. She works to create an atmosphere where people feel seen and heard.
Susan uses age-appropriate methods so young clients can engage and learn tools that fit their lives. Parents receive clear, straightforward guidance when the work includes family-related issues like blended family concerns or parenting stress. Beyond trauma and anxiety, she addresses attention and concentration issues, memory concerns, grief and loss, body image, and caregiver stress.
Susan also supports people navigating adoption and foster care histories, attachment difficulties, and co-morbid conditions. Her approach focuses on small, steady changes that add up over time. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Susan encourages people to take the first step and complete a short matching questionnaire to begin scheduling sessions.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Susan works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills. One approach emphasizes coping skills and emotion regulation to reduce anxiety and stress; it teaches short, repeatable exercises people can use during hard moments. Another approach centers on trauma-informed strategies that help people process painful experiences at a pace they can manage, building safety and gradual recovery.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then adapts techniques to fit the person's life. Clients and the therapist check progress and adjust the plan together as needs change.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide quick, ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around school, work, and daily routines.
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