About Susan
Susan Rome is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 39 years of experience in California. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her manner is direct but warm, and she encourages small steps that lead to clearer thinking and steadier days. Susan creates a calm space where clients can say what feels hard to say.
Conversations focus on what is happening now and practical ways to change patterns that keep problems stuck. She listens for how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and helps people find options that fit their life.
Her sessions are collaborative. She and the client set goals together and check in on progress each week.
Some work focuses on coping tools for panic and anxiety, while other sessions look at past hurts that keep showing up in relationships. Susan draws on many evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape each plan.
She adapts her approach to the person in front of her rather than following a single method. That flexible style helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to start.
She also supports people facing communication breakdowns, control issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients who can connect from different locations.
Approaches and what online therapy looks like
Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and healing from past hurts. One approach emphasizes skills for managing anxiety and panic by breaking problems into small, teachable steps that can reduce symptoms and build confidence. Another approach looks at how past trauma or abuse affects current relationships and helps people process those events and change patterns that keep repeating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Susan treats the first few sessions as a chance to learn about the client's goals, preferences, and daily life. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan if something is not helping. This collaborative process lets the client guide the pace and focus of therapy.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send thoughts between sessions and use therapy in smaller steps during the day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into real life while working with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English