About Susan
Susan Van Wazer welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or uncertain about next steps. She aims to create a calm, straightforward space where concerns can be named and practical change can begin. Susan has three decades of counseling experience and uses that background to help clients find clearer direction.
Susan focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. She also helps with addiction, codependency, and compassion fatigue.
How Susan works
Clients bring issues like parenting stress, career doubts, bipolar management, and questions about identity and purpose. Her style blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy. That means she listens first, then helps people test small changes that can shift daily habits and thinking.
She also draws on existential ideas to help people clarify meaning and Jungian perspectives to notice recurring patterns. Susan has experience building programs, supervising other therapists, and handling administrative and grant work. That practical perspective often shows up in therapy as an emphasis on doable steps and realistic plans.
Her Missouri licensure is LPC, which appears after her name in professional contexts. People work with Susan by choosing a session format that fits their life and trying approaches that match their goals. She encourages a collaborative process where progress is measured in concrete changes and clearer choices.
The tone in sessions is direct, patient, and focused on what the client wants to achieve.
Susan lists 9 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that fit into online therapy
Susan often uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting what matters most to the person, useful for building trust and clarifying goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and daily habits and tests small changes to reduce anxiety or shift mood, which can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match those needs. That collaborative process means adjustments are made as progress is seen and priorities change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and use a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when a camera is not convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, processing between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work even when schedules or locations change.
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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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