Susan Williams, LCSW
Helping people rewrite stuck stories
Details
| Name | Susan Williams |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | Wisconsin |
| Licensed in | Wisconsin |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 20 |
About Susan
Susan Williams is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and addiction concerns. She works with individuals around self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. Her style is practical and direct, aimed at helping people name problems and take small steps toward change.
Susan uses Narrative ideas to help clients separate themselves from difficult problems and rewrite the stories that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to strengthen relationships and build self-understanding. Cognitive Behavioral tools and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy appear in sessions when clients want concrete coping skills for mood, worry, or impulse control. In a typical session Susan listens for the patterns that keep causing pain.
She helps clients map those patterns, test new behaviors, and practice skills between meetings. Work often focuses on communication, boundaries, managing cravings, and coping with life transitions. Susan has experience with a broad range of concerns including bipolar symptoms, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing family-of-origin issues, abandonment and attachment wounds, and blended family challenges. Her practice accepts international clients and offers several online formats. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is arranged after a brief matching process.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Trauma and abuse among the things Susan works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Susan among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Susan directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Susan directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Therapeutic approaches for online work and everyday life
Many online sessions include Narrative Therapy, which helps people separate themselves from problems and rewrite unhelpful life stories. Narrative work can be useful for issues like low self-worth, family-of-origin pain, and feeling stuck in repeating patterns.Attachment-Based Therapy is also used to look at how early and current relationships shape feelings and behavior. This approach helps people improve communication, set clearer boundaries, and build more trusting connections. Client-Centered Therapy is another influence - sessions emphasize the client's perspective and pace, offering reflection and acceptance as people explore change.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, checking in and adjusting the plan over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and travel schedules while using approaches that focus on relationships, coping skills, and personal stories.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Susan works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem issues, and related struggles like eating and sleeping problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She blends Narrative perspectives with attachment and client-centered approaches, offering both storytelling work and practical skill building in a down-to-earth way.
How much experience does this therapist have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience supporting people with mood disorders, addiction, relationship challenges, and trauma-related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Susan holds an LCSW and practices from Wisconsin.
Which languages and locations are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different preferences and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Susan?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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