Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
How Susan works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Connecticut
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Susan
Susan LeClair is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 22 years of clinical experience in Connecticut. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and anger. Susan works with individuals and couples, and she aims to make the first steps into therapy straightforward and manageable.
Her practice began in crisis settings and grew to include a wide range of life challenges. She has worked with people dealing with trauma and abuse, domestic violence, divorce and separation, and complex grief.
Background and approach
Her background also includes supporting those navigating gender identity and LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care, and major life transitions. Susan uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients set clear, practical goals. Sessions concentrate on identifying small, doable changes and building on what already works.
This approach is useful for people who want concrete strategies and faster movement toward everyday improvements. She emphasizes a nonjudgmental and ethical stance in sessions. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, direct feedback, and help sorting immediate priorities.
If a concern falls outside her scope, she will suggest other professionals who may be a better match. People come to Susan when they need help with communication problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness challenges, work and career shifts, and struggles with self-esteem or intimacy. Her style is practical and respectful, aimed at helping clients find sustainable ways to cope and move forward.
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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Susan lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches and online care for real life
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on setting clear, short-term goals and using small steps that lead to change. This approach looks for what is already working and builds practical plans for things the client wants to improve, which can help with anger, relationship problems, and coping during life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try strategies, and adjust methods over time. That collaborative process helps match techniques to a client's priorities and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Susan
What kinds of problems does she address?
Susan helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and related issues listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a practical, goal-oriented approach that focuses on small, achievable changes. Conversations are direct and geared toward real-world solutions.
What is her professional background?
She has 22 years of experience working in crisis intervention and a range of clinical settings supporting people through life transitions and trauma.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, CT LMFT, practicing in Connecticut.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What steps should I take to begin therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.