Susan Williams
Support for families and relationship struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Susan
Susan Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience based in Wisconsin. She helps adults and families who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship troubles, parenting challenges, addiction, mood concerns, and trauma. Her approach is practical and straightforward, focused on small steps that lead to clearer choices and less overwhelm.
Susan listens first to understand what matters most to each person. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to tackle upsetting thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect today’s responses. Sessions are a mix of talking, learning new skills, and trying things between meetings. She blends mindfulness practices and elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and coping skills are needed.
Her work often includes coaching around communication, boundaries, and problem solving within families. Over two decades of practice have included support for blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, eating and sleeping concerns, and intimacy-related problems. She also addresses abandonment, attachment wounds, and family of origin issues that affect current relationships.
Susan accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. To begin, clients use the site’s matching process and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Practical approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns that began in early relationships and how they shape closeness and trust now. It helps people understand why they react a certain way in relationships and guides changes in connection and communication.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems that get in the way of functioning.
Mindfulness techniques help slow down intense feelings and bring attention back to the present moment. These practices are often paired with skills training to improve emotion regulation and reduce reactivity.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches make sense based on goals, needs, and comfort. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to attend from home, fit therapy into a busy schedule, and use brief check-ins between appointments when useful.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
Next step
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