About Susan
Susan Faix is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, grief, addiction, and relationship concerns. Her approach is respectful and straightforward, aimed at helping people take manageable steps forward.
She shapes sessions around each person's needs. Conversations and goals are adjusted to suit a client's situation and pace. She listens for what matters most and helps create a plan that fits day-to-day life.
How Susan works
Susan draws on therapy approaches that look at connections, emotions, and thinking patterns. This can mean working on how relationships affect mood, noticing unhelpful thought habits, or strengthening emotional responses. The goal is clearer thinking and steadier reactions so daily life becomes easier to handle.
Sessions often include practical tools and skills people can use between meetings. These may address sleep, eating, stress, anger, or managing symptoms of depression and bipolar disorder. She also addresses parenting strains, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to major life changes.
Susan works with a wide range of concerns including intimacy problems, communication issues, codependency, abandonment, and blended family stress. She also supports people coping with trauma, addiction, ADHD, career pressures, and aging-related worries. The focus is on small, concrete steps toward better functioning and greater self-understanding.
Susan lists 12 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.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how close relationships shape feelings and behavior. In practical terms this can help people spot patterns that hurt intimacy or trigger anxiety and then practice new ways of relating.Client-Centered Therapy centers on a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation. It gives people space to set the pace and topics, while the therapist reflects concerns back and helps clarify goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world behavioral experiments. This approach often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, eating patterns, and coping skills for daily stress.
Choosing the right approach is a joint effort. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a few techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to find methods that fit your life and preferences.
Online formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be quieter or use less bandwidth, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text messaging suits brief updates or mood tracking. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while using approaches that aim to improve relationships, emotions, and daily coping.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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