About Susan
Susan Garon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of professional experience. She practices in Florida and draws on long experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes.
Background and approach
Susan takes a straightforward, respectful approach in sessions and adapts her style to each person's needs. Her work focuses on everyday problems that can feel overwhelming.
She helps people untangle relationship friction, manage self-esteem concerns, and cope after loss. She also brings experience with adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric issues, and attachment concerns.
Susan uses a mix of approaches that suit the person in front of her. She often combines client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral work and emotion-focused methods.
This allows her to address thought patterns, emotional responses, and present-day relationship dynamics. People come to Susan for help with communication problems, blended family stress, and the strain of divorce or separation.
She also supports those dealing with guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose or midlife transitions. Her background includes work related to veterans and armed forces issues.
Susan aims to make sessions clear and practical. She works alongside each person to set achievable steps and build coping skills.
The tone in her practice is warm, direct, and focused on what will help most right now.
Approaches that translate to online care
Susan commonly uses client-centered therapy, which prioritizes listening and understanding so the person can explore feelings at their own pace. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a steady, nonjudgmental space to talk about stress or grief.She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, and problems that respond to practical skill-building and homework between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods over time. Clients can expect collaborative decision making about which strategies to try and regular check-ins about progress.
Online sessions offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is suited for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, brief communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Kentucky
- Languages
- English