About Susan
Susan LeClair is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of clinical experience in Connecticut. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship problems, or life transitions. Susan works with individuals and couples and aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through difficult moments.
Susan’s background includes long experience in crisis intervention and support for people facing domestic violence, sexual abuse, fertility and adoption concerns, and caregiving stress.
How Susan works
She also addresses issues such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness when they affect daily life and relationships. Her practice includes working on intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and career or role changes. In sessions she focuses on practical, forward-looking steps rather than getting stuck on what went wrong.
Susan uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients identify small changes that lead to clearer choices and gradual progress. She aims to build trust so people feel safe enough to try new strategies between sessions. Susan values honesty and clear boundaries.
If a concern falls outside her scope, she will suggest other professionals who might be a better match. Her approach is direct yet compassionate, helping people set realistic goals and track small gains. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, tools they can use at home, and attention to real-life constraints like work schedules and caregiving duties.
Susan invites people ready to try a practical, goal-oriented path to reach out and begin the matching process.
Susan lists one way 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Solution-Focused care adapted for online therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes identifying specific goals and small steps that make a noticeable difference. It helps people move past stuck patterns by concentrating on what works and building on existing strengths. This approach is useful for issues like stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and practical life changes.In practice Susan uses short-term, goal-oriented conversations to help clients try new behaviors between sessions. That collaborative process means she and the client regularly check what is helping and adjust the plan together. The therapist will work with each person to choose the approach that fits their needs and preferences rather than insisting on a single method.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls provide face-to-face conversation when more nuance is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit shorter check-ins into a workday or to share thoughts between sessions. These formats let people access licensed professionals from different locations and keep therapy practical around other responsibilities.
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