- Relationship focus
- Practical tools
- Strengths based
About Susan
Susan Berg is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 40 years of professional experience in California. She focuses on relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and parenting stress. She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and helps them build on their strengths to move forward.
She listens for what matters most and helps people name their priorities. Sessions are practical and direct, with attention to how problems show up day to day. The work often includes sorting through painful memories, improving communication, and building steady routines after loss or upheaval.
Susan helps people who feel stuck by breaking big problems into manageable steps. She supports clients coping with compassion fatigue, caregiver strain, or the fallout of separation and addiction. Codependency and attachment patterns are addressed through focused conversations and practice outside sessions.
Her style is respectful and encouraging. She asks questions that clarify goals and offers tools people can try between meetings. The emphasis is on real change that fits a client’s life, not jargon or long theoretical talks.
Clients who reach out are guided through a clear start-up process and helped to set realistic, measurable goals. Susan aims to create a steady, predictable experience so people can test new ways of relating and feeling safer in everyday life.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online work
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques are organized around clear steps and exercises that can be done over time. Cognitive-behavioral approaches focus on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teach practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; this helps with anxiety, mood problems, and many relationship difficulties. Attachment-focused ideas look at how early connection patterns shape current relationships and help people notice and change recurring ways of relating that lead to codependency or isolation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and day-to-day needs. Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made, so the plan can shift if something isn’t helping.
Confirm the session options before booking, as formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when life gets hectic. It can also let people practice new skills in real life between meetings. Licensed professionals use these methods to help clients make steady, practical change without long theoretical discussions.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
40+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns are commonly addressed?
Susan works with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief and parenting challenges. She also helps people struggling with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, codependency, attachment issues, and related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is practical and encouraging. She listens, helps set clear goals, and offers tools people can use between sessions.
How long has she practiced?
She has 40 years of professional work experience as a therapist in California.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - and practices in California.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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