About Susan
Susan Banco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience based in New York. She trained at Adelphi University and has worked in community settings, schools, and day programs. Her background includes teaching other social workers and providing counseling in individual and group formats.
Susan keeps sessions warm and conversational. She mixes approaches to help people find practical tools and build confidence. Sessions focus on small steps that add up to meaningful change.
How Susan works
She helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. That includes parenting challenges, relationship and partner concerns, divorce and separation, and career or financial changes. She also works with issues related to addictions, grief, and intimacy struggles.
Susan offers coaching-style support for employment and life-purpose questions. She also addresses eating and food-related issues, communication and commitment concerns, and feelings like emptiness, guilt, or shame. Her experience includes working with blended family dynamics and fatherhood issues.
Her style is collaborative and flexible. She adapts her approach to what each person needs and to busy schedules. Sessions can use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit day-to-day life.
To begin, she asks people to pick the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time.
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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Susan frequently uses Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people can find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behavior and helps people test new ways of coping for anxiety, depression, and eating concerns. Motivational Interviewing helps people weigh options and find their own reasons to change, often used for addictions and behavior change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts the plan as progress is made and as needs shift over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter updates, coaching-style support, or when written reflection feels more helpful. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to attend regular sessions.
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