Works with
How Susan works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Years in practice
- 28
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Susan
Susan Guerra is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and anger. She works with concerns like trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, and life changes.
Sessions focus on practical skills and clear steps people can use between meetings. Susan brings experience from hospitals, hospice, home health, residential treatment, outpatient clinics, and community shelters.
Background and approach
That background informs how she adapts support to different life situations. She aims to meet each person where they are and build on real strengths. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental.
She uses a mix of methods to fit what a person needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive strategies, emotion-focused work, and mindfulness practices. The goal is to create tools clients can try right away. Susan emphasizes learning by doing.
Sessions include skills practice, problem-solving, and planning for everyday challenges. She helps people try new ways of coping and checks what actually works in daily life. Over time she helps clients shape realistic goals and routines that support better mood, clearer thinking, and steadier relationships.
People who want direct, practical help for anger, stress, addiction, or long-standing mood concerns may find this approach helpful. Her long career brings a wide range of clinical settings to each session.
What Susan works with
Everything Susan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Susan's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Susan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and then take action toward what matters. It can help with anxiety, depression, and trouble managing anger by clarifying values and building committed steps forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors interact. It offers practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep stress and mood problems going. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating issues, and many everyday worries.
Finding the right fit is a shared process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences, and adapt methods as needs change over time. That collaborative planning helps make sessions feel purposeful and relevant.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for longer sessions and skills practice, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat can suit short check-ins, and messaging helps with brief notes or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy home schedules.
Questions people ask about Susan
What concerns does she help with?
Susan supports people with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, anger, and related issues such as trauma, relationship problems, sleep and eating concerns, parenting strain, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is compassionate and nonjudgmental with a focus on practical strategies. Sessions emphasize skill building, problem-solving, and applying tools between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 28 years of experience working in settings such as hospice, home health, psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, residential substance-abuse programs, and community shelters.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Louisiana.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Sessions can be conducted by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.