- Client-centered
- Trauma-informed
- Men's wellbeing focus
About Sue
Sue (Susie) Swartz is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a focus on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She works with people facing addictions, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and LGBT concerns. Sue encourages clients who are ready to make changes and wants to help them live a fuller, more meaningful life.
Sue uses a client-centered way of working that looks for each person's strengths. Sessions are collaborative and practical. She helps people notice patterns, thoughts, and behaviors that get in the way and tries techniques matched to what each person needs.
Her background includes long experience in trauma work, crisis intervention, and victim advocacy, plus work with adults who had severe mental health challenges. That experience informs how she supports people through difficult losses, abandonment issues, and complex grief.
Sue also works with concerns such as attachment difficulties, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and communication problems. She draws from therapies like acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and attachment-based approaches to guide conversations and skill building.
With ten years as a clinician and a California LMFT credential, Sue aims to create an honest, trusting relationship. She invites people to choose hope and take practical steps toward lasting change.
How these therapy approaches work online
Sue uses approaches like acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based therapy in ways that translate well to conversation-based sessions. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then taking actions that match your values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and making meaningful behavior changes. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and communication, and it can help with relationship concerns, abandonment issues, and attachment difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sue will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. She adjusts techniques during sessions so they match what’s useful and realistic for that person.
Confirm the available session options before booking since formats were not specified in the profile. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Talking through issues from wherever you are can still include skills practice, thought tracking, and planning real-world experiments to test new ways of coping and communicating.
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Experience
10+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What issues does Sue help with?
Sue works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing addictions, relationship and parenting concerns, and LGBT-related challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a client-centered style that focuses on each person’s strengths and goals. Sessions are collaborative and practical, aiming to identify unhelpful patterns and build skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Sue has ten years of clinical experience and a longer background in trauma work, crisis intervention, and victim advocacy. That history shapes how she supports complex and grief-related concerns.
What are Sue's credentials and location?
She holds a California LMFT credential and practices with a focus on clients in California. The LMFT stands for licensed marriage and family therapist.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Exact fees are provided during scheduling.
How do I begin therapy with Sue?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.