About Susan
Rev. Susan Sciarratta helps people managing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. She uses a straightforward, compassionate approach to assist with parenting challenges, career questions, self-esteem, and coping after trauma or loss.
Susan is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Pennsylvania with 12 years of counseling experience. She draws on a previous 20-year career as an engineer to bring clear thinking and practical problem solving into sessions.
How Susan works
That background often helps when clients want structure for goals, decision-making, or rebuilding confidence after setbacks. Susan adapts each plan to the person in front of her rather than applying the same steps to everyone. Sessions focus on identifying manageable next steps.
She listens for what matters most and helps people practice skills between meetings. Conversations can include emotion processing, skill building for communication, and ways to reduce daily stress so clients feel steadier. Susan also supports those facing caregiver strain, aging and geriatric concerns, end-of-life decisions, fertility stress, postpartum depression, and issues around guilt, shame, or forgiveness.
She pays attention to attachment patterns and relationship dynamics that affect daily life. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth. She encourages honesty about setbacks and celebrates small wins.
The goal is to help clients move toward clearer purpose, better coping, and greater confidence in facing life’s 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches to therapy you can try online
Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and emotional processing. One approach centers on skill-based coaching where sessions teach specific strategies to manage anxiety, reduce stress, and improve communication. This helps when daily routines feel overwhelming and quick tools are needed to cope.Another approach focuses on grief and loss work that gently guides people through mourning and adjustment. Sessions may include remembering what matters, making meaning, and finding ways to move forward while honoring what was lost.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals, test what helps, and adjust methods based on your needs and preferences. That collaborative process aims to find the best fit rather than imposing a single way of working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you talk face-to-face for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, coaching, and flexible touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping momentum between meetings.
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