About Susan
Susan Frambes is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in New Jersey with 30 years of experience. She helps people facing depression, anxiety, stress, grief, trauma and addiction. She also supports those dealing with relationship and family problems, work and career concerns, body image and self-esteem issues.
She works with everyday struggles like sleep and eating concerns and offers coaching for life changes and compassion fatigue. Susan listens first and tailors her approach to each person.
How Susan works
She uses client-centered methods to focus on what matters most to the individual. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and trauma-focused work to address painful memories and unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions are straightforward and practical.
She helps people identify small changes that make daily life easier and reduce distress. Conversations often include skill-building, reality-oriented problem solving, and mindful awareness exercises that can be practiced between visits. Susan is comfortable offering different ways to stay in touch, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
She can adapt the schedule when possible and aims to respond to messages regularly. This flexibility is useful for people balancing work, caregiving, or irregular routines. Her style is direct but warm.
She believes in the value of talking through what weighs someone down while building practical tools to move forward. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Susan lists 4 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.
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and present concerns. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people decide the next small steps to feel better. This approach works well for issues like low self-esteem, life changes, and relationship struggles.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. Sessions include practical exercises and skill practice to reduce anxiety, depression, and problematic behaviors. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on processing traumatic memories and easing their ongoing impact through paced, supportive work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Susan will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. The plan can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offer flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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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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