About Susan
Susan Lockard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and trauma. She focuses on everyday struggles like low self-esteem, overwhelm, anger, and feeling disconnected. Susan offers a calm presence and practical steps people can use right away.
She uses clear, hands-on methods to help clients build coping skills and improve communication. Sessions often include goal-focused work and exercises to manage panic, mood shifts, and impulsivity.
Background and approach
Susan also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Susan draws on a mix of approaches that fit each person’s needs. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral tools and mindfulness practices.
When trauma is part of the story, she may use techniques aimed at reducing the intensity of painful memories. Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people set realistic steps, notice small wins, and adjust strategies that aren’t working.
Many clients appreciate her down-to-earth guidance and emphasis on building daily habits that ease symptoms. With 16 years of experience, Susan works with adults who want clear strategies and steady support. Sessions can address a wide range of concerns, including family of origin issues, isolation, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose.
She aims to help people move toward more manageable days and clearer priorities.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. It creates space to talk through feelings and priorities so goals come from what matters to the client. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thought and behavior patterns and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and handle impulsivity.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss symptoms, goals, and preferences during early sessions and recommend a mix of methods. Together the client and therapist will adjust techniques as needed to match progress and comfort with the work.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or days when shorter contact fits a person’s schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain regular contact as work toward goals continues.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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