Susan Wolanyk

Susan Wolanyk is an Ohio-based licensed counselor with nine years of clinical experience working in community settings with moderate to severe mental illnesses. Her practice has included work with diverse populations such as Hispanic, East European, Black, and newly arrived immigrant communities from around the world.

She developed a deep compassion and patience through seeing how shame and fear affect people, and she draws on her perspective as a third-generation immigrant to understand the challenges that can arise across generations. Her master’s training emphasized clinical humility when working with people who are hurting.

Susan’s clinical focus includes grief and loss, depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse with both adults and teens. She also supports clients dealing with stress, coping with life changes, addictions, family conflicts, anger management, self-esteem concerns, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue.

After a first career in corporate settings while raising five children, she moved into counseling. She practices using an eclectic, person-centered approach that builds on what motivates each person and leverages individual strengths. She aims to stand alongside clients, offering hope when it feels hard to imagine change, and to help find solutions that create lasting progress so each person can take their unique place in the world.

She holds licenses to practice mental health counseling in New York and carries clinical supervisory credentials as a licensed counselor in Ohio.