About Suzanne
Suzanne Boak is a licensed social worker with more than 32 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, family difficulties, grief, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, trauma, and problems with intimacy and anger. Her work also covers caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and issues around communication and commitment.
Suzanne uses a calm, practical style in sessions. She listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them.
How Suzanne works
Conversations focus on real-world steps clients can try between meetings. The aim is clearer thinking and better day-to-day coping. She draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs.
That can include client-centered work to build self-understanding, EMDR for trauma processing, and Gottman-informed strategies for improving communication. Motivational Interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used when short-term change is the goal. Suzanne has worked in Michigan and also spent time practicing overseas during her career.
Her background includes extensive work with caregivers and people living with chronic health issues. She brings long experience to complex life transitions and family of origin concerns. Sessions emphasize practical tools and steady emotional support.
Clients who come for relationship or parenting struggles get concrete communication skills. Those coping with grief or trauma receive paced, evidence-informed options for healing.
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What Suzanne works with
The areas below are the ones Suzanne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 32 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic methods that translate online
Suzanne often uses client-centered work to help people clarify their values and goals. This approach focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting the person's own insights to guide change. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, which helps people process traumatic memories through structured sets of focused attention and movement; it can be applied when trauma or abuse is a concern.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Suzanne will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods might fit best. Together they monitor progress and adapt the work as needs change, so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy with Suzanne is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and text messaging is useful for ongoing reflections or quick support between meetings. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or mobility limitations.
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