About Susan
Susan Berg is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 40 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her approach treats each person as the expert of their own story. She listens for what matters most and helps clients name clear, achievable goals.
Sessions are straightforward and goal-focused. Clients work on skills for communication, setting boundaries, and coping with loss and stress.
Susan uses proven, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide change. She helps people process painful experiences, reduce overwhelming emotions, and rebuild trust in relationships.
Work can include looking at patterns that keep problems going and trying new ways of relating. Her style is collaborative and respectful.
She points out strengths and offers tools the client can use between sessions. Progress often comes from small, steady steps rather than big leaps.
Parents who are struggling with stress or role conflicts can get help with practical strategies. People dealing with burnout or compassion fatigue are offered ways to restore energy and set limits.
Susan also supports those wrestling with questions of meaning and life purpose. Sessions are offered in English and are scheduled around each person’s needs.
Her work aims to help clients feel more able to handle daily demands and to move toward greater ease in relationships and life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of her methods are evidence-based techniques that focus on understanding patterns and building new skills. One approach emphasizes processing painful events and their emotional impact so people can reduce reactivity and make clearer choices. Another approach focuses on improving communication and behavior patterns inside relationships so conflicts are easier to manage and repair.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to identify goals and tries methods that match those goals and personal preferences. That way the plan evolves with what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction when it helps, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English