Sue (Susie) Swartz
Calm, practical support for parenting and family life
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sue
Sue (Susie) Swartz is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life changes. She also supports those dealing with addictions, LGBT concerns, relationship and family issues, and parenting challenges. Sue speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Sue uses a client-centered stance that looks for each person’s strengths. She works with clients to notice patterns of thinking and behavior that get in the way.
Background and approach
Then she helps people try small changes that feel manageable. Her training includes tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, among other approaches. That means sessions often mix skill practice with conversations about values and goals.
Sue also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns. Sue has ten years of professional experience and holds a California licensed marriage and family therapist credential, CA LMFT 124329. She has worked extensively with trauma, crisis intervention, victim advocacy, and people with serious mental health needs in past roles.
Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and therapist availability. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
How Sue’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for stress, anxiety, grief, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior through practical exercises and skill practice. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, which can be helpful for relationship and family concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sue works together with each client to see which methods fit their goals, preferences, and situation. That collaborative choice helps shape session work and which skills to practice between meetings.
Online therapy with Sue is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to connect from home, manage busy family schedules, and use short check-ins when needed. The range of options supports steady progress while fitting therapy into everyday life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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