Susan “Sue”(nickname) Wildermann
Helping families build clearer ways to relate
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan “Sue” Wildermann is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience in New Jersey. She brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to therapy and treats the work as a team effort. Sue aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on real problems parents and families face.
Many people find her easy to talk with and appreciate her nonjudgmental manner. She holds a Master’s in the Behavioral Sciences and a Professional Diploma in Marriage and Family Therapy.
Background and approach
Sue draws on several therapeutic methods to match each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed style. Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and building on strengths that already exist in the family. Sue works with adults, couples, parents, and grandparents on family and parenting concerns.
She helps people manage anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, and relationship difficulties. Her practice also includes issues such as adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and grief. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
She also uses emotionally-focused therapy to improve connection in relationships and narrative therapy to help people reframe their stories. Solution-focused techniques help move families toward practical change quickly. Clients who have faced domestic violence or disaster-related trauma have come to her for support and rebuilding.
Sue emphasizes empowerment and helps people identify the changes they want to make. Her aim is to help families find safer, clearer ways to relate and solve problems.
Therapeutic approaches and online care for families
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and working from the client’s goals, helping people feel heard and building on their strengths to make changes. It suits family and parenting concerns where understanding and support are the first steps toward new routines.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete ways to try different behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and parenting patterns that families want to shift.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on improving connection between partners or family members by identifying emotions and changing interaction patterns. It can help families repair trust and improve communication during stressful transitions.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try practical strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. That process often begins in the first few sessions and continues as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible options for busy families. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work and family schedules, allow follow-up between sessions, and help people connect with a licensed professional from home or another convenient place.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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