About Susan
Susan Faix is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with over 26 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. Her work also includes support for people facing addictions, grief, parenting strain, relationship challenges, and ADHD-related difficulties.
Susan keeps therapy straightforward and practical. She listens first, then collaborates on goals that matter to the client. Sessions are shaped to fit each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term clinical practice across a range of concerns, from trauma and attachment wounds to self-esteem and career stress. That variety helps her adapt tools and conversations to different situations. She draws on approaches that emphasize understanding emotions, improving communication, and building useful daily skills.
In sessions she aims to be respectful and compassionate. The tone is direct but warm, and the work often moves between talking through feelings and practicing small behavior changes. Parents who feel overwhelmed or people managing mood and attention challenges will find a focus on real-life strategies.
Susan encourages small steps toward clearer routines, steadier relationships, and better coping habits. She supports clients through change, whether they are rebuilding after loss, negotiating family tensions, or learning to manage impulsivity and focus. The aim is practical progress people can notice in their day-to-day life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses; it helps people understand patterns in close relationships and work on safer ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at emotional experience in relationships and helps people name, accept, and express feelings to improve connection and reduce distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to pick methods that fit the person's needs, pace, and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging fits brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily routines while using the approaches above to address anxiety, attention challenges, relationship issues, and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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