About Susan
Susan Johnston is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Indiana with eight years of clinical experience. She returned to school as an adult and has built a career across many treatment settings. Her work aims to help people find practical ways to cope and move forward when life feels overwhelming.
Susan has worked in office environments, residential and group homes, inpatient mental health care, and intensive outpatient programs.
How Susan works
She has also provided services in probation settings and supported students in a college academic environment. These roles shaped a hands-on, straightforward approach to everyday problems. Addiction treatment has been a meaningful part of her practice, where she helps people and their loved ones rebuild hope and practical routines.
She also has experience collaborating with immigrant and refugee families, using professional interpreters when needed to respect language and culture. Her clinical view blends humanistic and experiential ideas with emotional and cognitive work, using family systems thinking to see how relationships affect behavior. That mix guides how she plans sessions and priorities goals with each person.
Susan prefers to collaborate as a team with the person seeking help, tailoring the work to individual needs and goals. Sessions focus on clear steps and coping strategies people can use between meetings. She encourages steady progress and practical solutions for stress, relationships, grief, addictions, and other life changes.
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches work online with a collaborative plan
Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes experiential work, which helps people learn through activities and real-time emotional processing to address trauma, grief, and intense feelings. Another approach blends emotional and cognitive work, helping people notice thoughts and feelings, try new responses, and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She treats the choice as a collaboration and will help clients decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can be adjusted as progress is made or circumstances change.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day or to get support between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, school, and family life.
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