Susan Van Wazer, LPC - Therapist in Missouri

About Susan

Susan Van Wazer is a licensed professional counselor with three decades of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns and helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, and life transitions. Her tone is straightforward and warm, aimed at parents who want practical support.

Susan explains things plainly and works with clients to identify patterns that keep problems repeating. She often looks at how family systems shape current struggles.

Background and approach

That means paying attention to habits, roles, and repeated interactions that feel hard to change. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try small, practical changes. Susan has supported people coping with trauma and abuse and helps those whose childhood experiences still affect daily life.

She brings a long career of varied roles to her work, including developing programs and supervising other therapists, which informs how she organizes treatment and sets realistic goals. Sessions cover a range of topics from addictions and compassion fatigue to self-esteem and career questions. She speaks English and holds Missouri LPC number MO LPC 001866, showing her licensed counselor credential.

Susan accepts international clients and offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules. Her style is collaborative: she listens first, then suggests practical steps clients can try between sessions. Many parents find this helpful when managing family conflicts, parenting challenges, or midlife changes.

Therapy Approaches and Online Options for Families

Client-Centered Therapy is about listening without judgment and helping clients find their own solutions. It helps people feel heard and build confidence to make choices that fit their values.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and for changing routines that fuel family conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide what to try first. That collaborative process can include mixing methods like client-centered listening with CBT tools for practical change.

Online therapy makes this process more flexible. Susan offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so families can choose what fits their schedule. These options can help parents balance therapy with work and home life and keep progress moving even when in-person visits are difficult.

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.

Existential Therapy

Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Susan help with?

Susan works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, relationship and family problems, parenting, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, and related concerns such as codependency and women's issues.

What is Susan's therapeutic style like?

Her approach is practical and collaborative. She listens first, then helps clients notice patterns and try specific changes using methods like cognitive behavioral work and family systems thinking.

How much experience does she have?

She has been a therapist for 30 years and has worked in many roles, including program development and supervising other therapists.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

Susan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with Missouri license MO LPC 001866 and practices from Missouri.

Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?

Sessions are offered in English and Susan accepts international clients.

What session formats are offered?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different preferences and schedules.

How are costs handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What do I do to begin working together?

Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 30 years
Licensed: Missouri
Languages: English

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