Dr. Sursatie Chetram
Compassionate, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sursatie
Dr. Sursatie Chetram helps people facing family and parenting challenges, relationship strain, grief, and mood concerns like anxiety or depression. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with six years of clinical experience and practices from Connecticut.
Her tone is practical and supportive, aimed at parents and partners looking for steady guidance. Her style is interactive and strength-based. She listens first, then works with clients to build a plan that fits their day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills people can use right away, clearer communication at home, and ways to manage intense emotions when they come up. Chetram blends several evidence-informed approaches to match what each person needs.
She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, acceptance-based strategies to reduce struggle with difficult feelings, and attachment ideas to improve closeness and trust in relationships. She adapts techniques to the family context rather than following a single script.
Practical issues like parenting stress, co-parenting after separation, blended family dynamics, addiction concerns, and trauma responses are part of her caseload. She also addresses areas such as abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, autism-related challenges, and chronic illness or pain when these affect family life. Sessions are offered in English and she works with international clients.
Dr. Chetram offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats. Pricing varies with location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values and small actions that move a person toward the kind of family life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to change how situations play out at home. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress that affect parenting and relationships. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of relating shape closeness and trust. It can help partners and family members rebuild connection and improve communication.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a client's goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted as therapy progresses so techniques that aren’t helpful are set aside and those that are useful are expanded.
Online therapy makes attending sessions more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions suit those on the move, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help parents and partners fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum while working on family and relationship goals.
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
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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