About Susan
Susan Wildemann is a licensed clinical social worker with 33 years of clinical experience. She practices in New York and brings decades of hands-on work to common life challenges. Susan focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship struggles.
She also supports those coping with parenting demands, caregiving strain, chronic illness or disability, and intellectual disability concerns. Her sessions are described as warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and without stigmatizing labels.
How Susan works
Susan individualizes each plan to match a person's needs and goals. She adapts methods rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach. Susan uses several practical approaches in her work.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help people test thoughts and change behaviors. Mindfulness exercises teach simple ways to reduce reactivity and stay present. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events continue to cause problems.
She also blends solution-focused and psychodynamic ideas when helpful. Solution-focused work narrows in on immediate goals and small steps. Psychodynamic thinking looks at patterns that recur across relationships and life choices.
Sessions typically involve talking through worries, practicing short exercises, and setting small, doable steps between meetings. Susan aims to empower people to manage symptoms, improve communication, and rebuild routine. She focuses on practical change while acknowledging difficult feelings.
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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Susan uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT often involves short home tasks and skill-building that work well between online sessions. Mindfulness therapy focuses on simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm; these exercises can be practiced during a video call or on the person's own time. Trauma-focused therapy addresses how past events affect current functioning and uses structured steps to process difficult memories and learn coping tools.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative work. Susan will discuss goals and preferences, try tools, and adjust methods based on what helps. That shared process makes it easier to find an approach that fits each person's needs and pace.
Online sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for different routines. Video calls allow visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions work with lower bandwidth, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and text messaging is useful for short updates or prompts between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping progress moving forward.
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