Susan Wildemann
Experienced LCSW focused on family needs
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Wildemann is a licensed clinical social worker with more than three decades of experience helping people navigate difficult life moments. She trained at Boston University and practices in New York. Her work covers common worries like anxiety and depression along with stress, grief, parenting concerns, and trauma.
She also has experience supporting people with intellectual disabilities. Susan keeps sessions warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and without stigmatizing labels.
Background and approach
Meetings are tailored to each person so practical steps match specific needs and goals. She draws on several therapy methods to guide conversations and plan next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Mindfulness techniques teach simple practices to notice and calm the body and mind. When trauma or long-standing patterns are involved, she integrates trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past events affect current feelings and relationships. Solution-focused tools are used to set concrete goals and track small changes.
Susan emphasizes collaboration. She works with clients to choose strategies that fit day-to-day life. The aim is to build clearer coping skills, better communication, and steadier moods over time.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Susan uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT focuses on clear steps and homework you can do between sessions to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple breathing and attention skills. These practices help with stress, sleep problems, and moment-to-moment emotional regulation and are easy to learn over video or phone.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches that fit daily life. Sessions can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, keep continuity during life changes, and use short check-ins when helpful. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and set practical steps between meetings.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
Next step
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