Ariel Susman
Calm, practical support for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ariel
Ariel Susman is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood shifts, or life transitions. She is licensed in New Jersey as an LPC and in New York as an LMHC. Ariel writes short, focused plans with each person and aims to make therapy clear and manageable from the first session.
She uses evidence-based techniques tailored to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-driven. Ariel helps clients sort through worries, manage low mood or high energy swings, and work on sleep, appetite, or daily functioning problems. Her background includes four years of clinical practice in community settings and personal work across New York and New Jersey.
That experience has exposed her to a wide range of concerns such as trauma, addictions, grief, and attention-related difficulties. Ariel describes herself as respectful, sensitive, and compassionate in her work. In early meetings she focuses on what matters most to each client and creates a short plan with clear next steps.
She adjusts techniques as needed when progress stalls or goals change. Ariel encourages small, concrete changes that add up over time. She offers sessions in English and is available to international clients.
Practical formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. The aim is to make getting help fit into a busy life.
Practical approaches for online care and goals
Ariel commonly uses evidence-based techniques that help people manage symptoms and build skills. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns of thinking and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce worry and low mood; this helps with anxiety and depression by teaching concrete thought and behavior changes. Another approach emphasizes building emotional regulation and coping skills to manage strong feelings, trauma responses, or mood swings; it teaches simple tools to ground and calm in the moment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ariel will listen to your concerns, talk through goals, and recommend techniques that match your needs and preferences. If a method doesn’t fit, she adjusts the plan so the work feels useful and doable.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Ariel offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide options for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats let clients have regular, consistent contact and work on goals without extra travel time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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