About Susan
Susan Rair Krug is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. She speaks plainly and focuses on helping clients understand their own story and build practical skills.
Her practice centers on identifying problem areas and using a person’s existing strengths to make change. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect.
How Susan works
She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to meet people where they are and slow down intense reactions. Susan pays attention to patterns like codependency, difficulty with communication, guilt and shame, and workplace stress. She also supports people coping with panic attacks, social anxiety, seasonal mood shifts, and post-traumatic stress.
She helps people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction work toward clearer goals and next steps. Sessions emphasize clear conversation and skill practice. Susan helps clients set achievable goals and learns which tools fit their learning style.
She aims for straightforward, usable steps rather than jargon or long lists of theory. Susan holds licenses in Ohio as an LCSW and an LISW. She offers help through online formats and adapts her approach to what each person needs.
If someone wants a practical, steady guide to change, she focuses on the work that gets results.
Susan lists 5 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
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Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches and how online therapy can help
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and goals. The therapist listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, which helps people feel heard and shape their own path.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together. It uses short practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. This can help with stress, shame, and mood swings by training a calmer response to difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about needs, goals, and learning style, then try methods that fit. Adjustments are made along the way so the work matches what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see each other and use visual cues, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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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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