About Susan
Susan Hammond is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with three decades of practice. She focuses on common but painful concerns like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and relationship strain. She also helps people facing trauma, bipolar mood challenges, anger, career crossroads, and major life changes.
Susan works in a straightforward, respectful way. She listens first and follows the person’s lead. Clients are treated as the expert on their own life while the therapist offers guidance, validation, and practical coping tools.
How Susan works
Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s goals and perspectives. Mindfulness techniques are used to help calm an overwhelmed mind and to build awareness of thoughts and feelings. Together these approaches support clearer decision making and steadier moods.
Susan also helps with family of origin issues, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, and questions of life purpose and self-love. She pays attention to women's issues and the ways social roles can shape wellbeing. Sessions are aimed at problem solving, building resilience, and restoring a sense of direction.
Beginning therapy is framed as a step-by-step process. Susan encourages small goals and practical strategies that can fit into everyday life. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make ongoing support easier to schedule and maintain.
Susan lists 2 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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Client-centered and Mindfulness Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person clarify choices. This approach is useful for building confidence, resolving self-esteem concerns, and working through relationship or family of origin issues.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept up by them. These exercises can reduce anxiety, improve mood regulation in bipolar and depressive states, and help manage anger or overwhelming stress.
Finding the right combination of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with the client to test approaches that match goals and preferences. Sessions evolve based on what helps most, and adjustments are made as progress is observed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to share thoughts between longer sessions and to fit support into a busy day. These formats make ongoing therapy more accessible and help people keep momentum on goals.
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