About Susan
Susan Zapatha helps people facing relationship problems, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and parenting strain. She also supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, LGBT and intimacy-related concerns, sleep disruption, anger, self-esteem issues, career questions, bipolar and depression, and the challenges of life changes.
Susan holds a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential and brings many years of clinical work to sessions. Susan keeps sessions direct and focused.
How Susan works
She creates space for clients to say what matters and to be heard without judgment. Conversations often include looking at patterns in relationships, learning concrete tools for coping, and practicing new ways to communicate. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and emotion-focused methods to repair connection and build safety in relationships.
She also uses client-centered principles to ensure clients lead the pace of change, plus cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. With 28 years of experience, Susan has worked across a range of concerns and settings. She helps people untangle long-standing patterns and also supports practical steps like sleep routines, stress management, and planning for career moves.
She pays attention to how past losses or abandonment shape present choices. Susan aims to be a steady presence during difficult transitions. She balances listening with skillful guidance.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs, with attention to clear goals and small, achievable steps.
Susan lists 4 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Susan draws on attachment-based work to look at how early bonds shape current relationships and help repair connection. This approach is useful for people struggling with intimacy, abandonment, or communication patterns.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete exercises and skill-building. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping strategies for daily stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work, and Susan treats it as a team effort. She listens to what you want to change, discusses options, and adapts methods to your goals and comfort level. Together you set priorities and try strategies that fit your life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls let you maintain face-to-face connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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