About Susan
Susan Cooper is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people navigate hard times. She focuses on practical, steady support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. Her approach is calm and direct, aimed at helping people take the next small steps toward feeling better.
Susan creates a space where people can speak frankly about fears, losses, and patterns that get in the way. She listens without judgment and helps identify what matters most to each person.
How Susan works
Sessions tend to focus on concrete coping skills and realistic goals that fit daily life. Her background includes two decades of practice in New Mexico as an LCSW. That experience has covered a wide range of concerns from eating issues and bipolar disorder to addictions, caregiver strain, and chronic illness.
She has also worked with people facing attachment or abandonment wounds, adoption and foster care histories, and body image struggles. Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address emotional pain, relationship strains, sleep problems, and parenting stress. She supports people dealing with career uncertainty, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
The work often blends short-term problem solving with longer-term skill building. People who reach out can expect straightforward guidance and steady encouragement. Susan aims to help clients find manageable steps forward, regain a sense of control, and build routines that support recovery and growth.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
Practical Approaches and Online Care
Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and helpful skills. One common approach she relies on teaches coping strategies for anxiety, sleep issues, and stress by breaking problems into manageable parts and practicing new routines. Another approach emphasizes understanding patterns in relationships and attachment, helping people spot repeated behaviors and try different responses that improve connection and trust.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Susan works with each person to figure out which techniques match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That might mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people keep visual connection for deeper conversations. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit into a busy day for brief updates or coping support between sessions. These options make it easier to attend therapy around work, caregiving, and travel while keeping momentum in the work.
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