Dr. Susan SchamingLPC

Dr. Susan Schaming is a licensed professional counselor with 38 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship struggles, parenting questions, depression, and major life changes. She also offers coaching for professionals navigating career or role transitions. Her tone is practical and encouraging for someone taking the first step toward support.

She has worked in PK-12 schools, university settings, hospitals, and community mental health services. That range shaped a flexible approach focused on what each person brings to sessions. She emphasizes listening, compassion, and helping clients identify strengths to meet challenges.

Susan uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. She draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, existential thinking, and narrative work to tailor sessions to goals. She aims to give concrete steps clients can use between sessions, often offering short assignments to practice new skills.

She often supports people coping with grief, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, communication problems, commitment and abandonment issues, and substance or eating-related struggles. She also helps people facing cancer-related stress and family-of-origin patterns that affect current life.

Sessions are framed as a collaborative process. Susan invites clients to describe what matters most and then builds practical, personalized ways to move forward. She notes that scheduling options may include early evenings or occasional weekends when needed.

How therapeutic approaches work in online care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes the client's own experience and goals. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what matters, and helps people make choices that fit their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Those skills are useful for depression, anxiety, and everyday coping.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. Sessions can be adjusted over time if something feels like a better fit or needs to change.

The biography does not specify which online or in-person formats are used, so confirm session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or remove travel time so appointments work around childcare or work. Licensed professionals commonly use these conveniences to help clients practice skills between sessions and stay consistent with progress.