Susan Garner

Susan Garner is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma, grief, and challenges with intimacy or self-esteem. She also supports those coping with career changes, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and major life transitions.

Susan keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to each person. She listens closely, helps you name the problems, and works with you to set clear, achievable goals. Her manner is respectful and nonjudgmental, with attention to the relationship between therapist and client.

Her background includes a mix of approaches drawn from client-centered work, attachment-based ideas, and cognitive behavioral methods. She also uses elements of emotionally-focused and mindfulness therapies and considers body-mind connections when helpful. That mix lets her tailor the work to the situation rather than follow a single formula.

Susan has worked with people from many cultural and ethnic backgrounds over the years. She has experience helping with family-of-origin issues, blended family concerns, communication and boundary setting, infidelity, jealousy, and codependency. She aims to help clients find clarity, build confidence, and create practical changes that fit their lives.

To begin, she encourages people to identify what they most want to change and then to take small steps toward those goals. The focus is on honest conversation, building new skills, and strengthening relationships that matter.

How her approaches translate to online therapy