Susan Soares , LCSW

Susan Soares is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping women cope with everyday pressures and deeper emotional wounds. She speaks plainly and works to create a warm, down-to-earth space where people feel heard. Her style aims to balance gentle support with clear direction so clients can make steady changes.

With 17 years of clinical experience, Susan has helped people manage anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. She has worked in school-based settings and with adults, and she draws on that range when supporting parents, caregivers, and individuals facing life transitions. Her work often addresses issues like parenting stress, grief, body image, attachment concerns, and compassion fatigue.

Susan uses practical strategies alongside relationship-focused care. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also incorporates mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior approaches to strengthen emotion regulation and coping.

Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Susan helps people set small, realistic steps and tracks progress together. She also uses motivational interviewing techniques when people want to change habits or tackle stuck patterns.

Clients can expect a therapist who values balance - mind, body, and spirit - and who will walk alongside them through hard moments. Susan works from Indiana and offers services in English. She welcomes conversations about stress, parenting, trauma, relationship issues, ADHD, and related concerns.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring the session to the person's needs. In practice this looks like open questions, reflective listening, and building goals together so the client feels understood and guided. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing daily challenges.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Susan will work collaboratively to decide which techniques fit a client's goals and preferences. She may combine client-centered support with CBT tools and mindfulness practices so the plan matches what the person wants to work on.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still using the same therapeutic approaches described above.