Susan Wolanyk

Susan Wolanyk is a licensed mental health clinician practicing in Ohio with nine years of experience working in community settings. She holds licensure in New York as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and in Ohio as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with supervisory credentials. Over the course of her career she has treated moderate to severe mental illnesses among a diverse mix of clients, including Hispanic, East European and Black communities, as well as new immigrants from around the world.

As a third-generation immigrant, Susan brings personal insight into the challenges that can affect multiple generations of families. Many of the people she has worked with struggled with shame and fear, and that exposure deepened her compassion and patience for human vulnerability. Her graduate training emphasized clinical humility, and she has focused clinically on grief and loss, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, working with both adults and teenagers.

Coming to therapy as a second career after years in the corporate world while raising five children, Susan uses an eclectic, person-centered approach that builds on what motivates each individual and their unique strengths. She works alongside clients with realistic hope when they feel change is out of reach, aiming to identify solutions that produce lasting results and help people claim their place in the world. Her areas of specialty include stress, anxiety, depression, coping with life changes, addictions, family conflicts, grief, anger management, self-esteem and career difficulties, along with support for bipolar disorder and compassion fatigue.