Susan Garner , LMFT

With twenty years of clinical practice, Susan Garner brings extensive professional training and lived experience to her psychotherapy work. As an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, she has worked with clients from late adolescence through later adulthood, supporting individuals, couples including same-sex partners, families, and people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Her approach is grounded in a strong commitment to each person’s healing and personal growth, and she collaborates with clients to clarify objectives and set workable goals.

Presenting concerns are often multi-layered, and Susan attends to the deeper emotional injuries, traumatic events, and family-of-origin dynamics that commonly underlie patterns of thinking and relating. She helps clients learn practical skills for healthier communication, boundaries, and relationship functioning, and she supports work on personal goals such as improving self-esteem, coping with life transitions, and managing mood or anxiety symptoms.

Susan emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as a central component of effective treatment, offering respect, compassion, and acceptance while drawing on evidence-informed methods. Her work blends traditions from East and West, including mindfulness and insight-oriented practices, cognitive behavioral techniques, somatic body-mind approaches, and psychodynamic perspectives.

She has experience addressing relationship and marital problems, communication and co-dependency issues, unresolved trauma, anxiety and mood disorders, grief and life transitions, blended family challenges, and other complex life concerns. Throughout treatment she aims to help clients gain clarity, confidence, and the practical tools to shape a more satisfying life.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Susan’s practice integrates several proven approaches to meet a range of concerns and help clients build skills for daily life. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating rooted in early bonds and is often helpful for relationship struggles, intimacy issues, and attachment wounds. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is a structured approach that identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and self-defeating patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and stress-management practices that support emotion regulation, reduce reactivity, and improve clarity around choices and values.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Susan works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Licensed professionals and therapists often blend techniques to tailor care, and Susan aims to involve clients in decisions about the direction and pace of work.

Online therapy options - including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules and to maintain continuity of care across locations. These modalities provide flexibility for scheduling, allow consistent work through life changes, and enable ongoing support in ways that suit a client’s daily routine.