- Client-centered approach
- CBT and mindfulness
- Focus on life changes
About Susan
Susan Lipkin, LISW, focuses on people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, career strain, relationship trouble, or grief. She uses a listening-first style to understand what each person needs and what has helped them before. Her tone is direct and calming, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for someone worried or unsure.
Susan earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work and has been a licensed independent social worker since 1999. She has a long clinical history across settings, including community mental health centers, psychiatric hospitals, veterans services, and private practice. That breadth informs how she approaches common problems like depression, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Her work often involves people affected by trauma, including sexual and physical abuse and military-related trauma, and she has supported those coping with domestic violence and infertility-related distress. Susan has also provided therapy related to aging, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and blended family and parenting concerns.
She favors flexible methods rather than a single technique. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one tool she frequently uses when it fits a person’s needs, alongside client-centered, narrative, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness approaches. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer patterns of thinking, and small changes that add up.
Susan aims to offer acceptance, warmth, and the absence of judgment, helping people make decisions, manage strong emotions, and find more balance in daily life. Prospective clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth approach to the issues they bring.
How Susan’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening to what matters most to the person and building sessions around those priorities. It helps when someone wants a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that affects work and relationships.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and stay grounded during stressful moments. It can help with anger, chronic stress, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time. That means the focus can shift as needs change, and techniques are introduced gradually in ways that feel manageable.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm which session formats are available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use therapy in a regular break from work or family obligations. Licensed professionals can help adapt exercises and tools to an online setting so progress continues between sessions.
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Experience
36+ years
Credentials
Ohio
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns can be addressed?
Susan works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and family issues, career concerns, and compassion fatigue among other areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
The approach is client-centered and flexible, using listening and collaboration to choose methods that fit each person, including cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques when helpful.
What is her professional background?
She has 36 years of experience, including work in community mental health centers, psychiatric hospitals, veterans services, and private practice.
What credentials and location are listed?
The therapist holds an LISW credential and is licensed in Ohio.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.