Susan LeClair
Practical, steady help for families and relationships
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan LeClair is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of clinical experience. She practices in Connecticut and brings steady, direct support for people facing relationship and family challenges. Her work often focuses on common stresses like anxiety, grief, parenting struggles, and life transitions.
She approaches sessions with plain language and practical steps. She uses Solution-Focused Therapy to identify realistic goals and build small changes that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Susan emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental tone and will suggest a referral when a different resource is a better match. Her style centers on collaboration. She listens to what matters most, then helps prioritize actions that move things forward.
Sessions aim to be clear and actionable rather than vague or overly clinical. Susan has long experience with relationship matters including divorce, co-parenting, blended family issues, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma, domestic violence, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiver stress.
People come for help with mood concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety, and for practical coping around chronic illness, career shifts, or compassion fatigue. She also addresses identity and LGBT-related issues, body image, and communication problems. Working with Susan means setting modest, attainable goals and checking progress along the way.
Her approach is geared toward parents and families who want concrete strategies for everyday problems and clearer next steps.
How solution-focused work fits into online therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical steps that produce real change. Sessions focus on identifying goals and building on what already works. This approach often helps with stress, parenting challenges, relationship problems, and life transitions by creating clear next steps.Susan uses short-term goal-setting as a tool and adapts questions to each person’s situation. She listens for strengths and past successes, then helps translate them into manageable actions. Finding the right approach is a team effort - she will work with clients to decide which strategies fit their goals and preferences.
Online formats make that collaborative process easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer simplicity, and live chat or text-based messaging provide ongoing check-ins and quick problem-solving between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help families and individuals keep momentum while balancing other responsibilities.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Susan
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point