Susan Frambes
Compassionate, practical support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Frambes is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience helping people navigate family and parenting challenges, trauma, addiction, grief, anxiety, and life changes. She works with adults facing depression, stress, low self-esteem, or the aftereffects of abuse. Sessions are practical and focused on what’s happening now in the family and at home.
She also supports people dealing with relationship problems, intimacy concerns, eating or sleeping issues, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Susan uses clear, straightforward methods in therapy. She listens first and tailors her approach to each person’s needs. She leans on cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people feel heard and to build steady coping skills. Her practice includes experience supporting survivors of domestic violence and stalking, and helping people through divorce, abandonment, and family-of-origin problems. She has worked with clients managing addictions and those adjusting to aging or caregiving roles.
Her background includes long-term work with people with disabilities and their families. Susan offers flexible communication options and is willing to accommodate clients who prefer text-based contact. She aims to respond to messages regularly and to make scheduling fit the client when possible.
Her style is direct, caring, and focused on practical steps that families and parents can use right away. Licensed in New Jersey as an LCSW, Susan brings 30 years of practice to each case. She combines talk therapy with concrete tools so families can move past what’s weighing them down and toward steadier day-to-day functioning.
How Susan’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the client’s lead and creates a space where concerns are named and explored. This approach helps people who need support sorting out feelings and family conflicts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions. It uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with sleep or eating.
Susan treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasize listening, CBT techniques, mindfulness practices, or trauma-focused work depending on needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy parents and caregivers. Video calls let therapists see family interactions when appropriate, while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging allow check-ins between sessions. Those options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, and caregiving responsibilities, and to keep steady contact when life gets hectic.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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