About Susan
Susan Garon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience. She is licensed in Florida and Kentucky and focuses on helping people find steadier ground during stressful times. Susan works with adults facing anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
She also pays attention to issues related to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, attachment, autism and Asperger syndrome, and veteran and armed forces issues.
How Susan works
Her practice addresses relationship strain, communication problems, blended family concerns, divorce and separation, and isolation. Her style is warm and respectful. She tailors conversations and treatment plans to each person's needs.
Sessions aim to be practical and direct so people can use what they learn right away. Susan draws on several approaches to shape therapy. She uses client-centered methods to listen and follow each person's priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and emotion-focused ideas to help people understand and repair important relationships.
She also incorporates dialectical behavioral and existential ideas when those fit the situation. People who come to Susan are often looking for steady support during hard transitions. She helps people name what they are facing, learn clearer ways to cope, and make concrete steps toward a more satisfying life.
Susan lists 8 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities so sessions feel guided by what matters most. It helps people who need a supportive space to sort their thoughts and decide what to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses straightforward exercises and practice to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and shift unhelpful patterns.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping. It is useful when someone needs tools for better emotional regulation and clearer decisions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
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