About Susan
Susan Frate is an Ohio-licensed social worker with 25 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She centers sessions on each person’s strengths and practical steps they can use right away. Signing up for therapy can feel hard, and she aims to make that first step feel useful and hopeful.
Susan uses straightforward conversation to help people sort out what’s most important to them.
How Susan works
She listens, asks clear questions, and helps clients build skills for daily life. Therapy focuses on real problems like sleep struggles, low mood, relationship strain, addiction concerns, attention challenges, and parenting stress. Her approach blends practical behavior work with acceptance and mindfulness.
Clients learn tools to manage strong emotions, change unhelpful patterns, and take values-based actions. She also draws on client-centered methods to shape the work around each person’s goals and pace. Susan has additional experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, codependency, grief, and forgiveness work.
She also addresses anger, career stress, compassion fatigue, and eating or food-related worries. Her background includes helping people affected by domestic violence, substance issues, and first responder stress. Sessions are delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, and are matched to a client’s needs.
Susan holds an Ohio LISW, which stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker. The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits the client’s availability.
Susan lists 9 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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing specific skills to change them, which can reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Susan partners with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean trying a mindfulness practice, working on behavioral experiments, or focusing on values-based steps over several sessions.
Online therapy makes those methods easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share updates between sessions and get support in writing. These formats offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical, effective tools.
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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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