Susan Garner

Susan Garner brings twenty years of clinical practice, personal life experience, and professional training to her work with individuals, couples, families, and larger support systems. She has supported people ages 17 through 70 and beyond, including same-sex couples and clients from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Her practice centers on a deep commitment to each person’s healing and personal growth. Together with clients she clarifies objectives and establishes achievable goals, recognizing that progress often begins with identifying the underlying issues that matter most to the client.

Many of the concerns people bring to therapy are complex and span multiple areas of life. Susan understands that symptoms frequently arise from core emotional injuries, traumatic events, or patterns rooted in family-of-origin dynamics. For some clients the work focuses on developing new relationship skills and healthier boundaries; for others it supports improved functioning related to personal or professional goals.

Therapy can provide relief in the moment and long-term gains in clarity, confidence, and self-worth. Susan notes that research highlights two key contributors to successful outcomes: the client’s sense of the therapist’s skill and the strength of the therapeutic alliance. She approaches every relationship with respect, compassion, and acceptance.

Susan blends traditions from both Eastern and Western therapeutic perspectives, drawing on mindfulness and insight-oriented practices alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), somatic body-mind approaches, and psychodynamic work to meet each client’s unique needs. She has experience addressing stress and anxiety, relationship and marital concerns, intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, depression, family conflict and grief, anger management, self-esteem and confidence, career challenges, mood disorders including bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and ADHD, as well as co-dependency, unresolved trauma, communication skills, and transitions such as loss, divorce, and blended families.