Susan Galewaler, LPC

Susan Galewaler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, and depression. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things.

Susan focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where people can share thoughts and feelings. She draws on long experience working with custody-related family concerns and has co-authored an educational book used by family therapists for assessing families and children in difficult custody situations. This background informs how she approaches family and relationship issues in sessions.

Sessions typically involve clear, practical conversation about what is causing distress. She helps people name patterns, practice new communication skills, and make manageable changes that fit daily life. The work often centers on coping with anxiety, healing from trauma, and addressing depression symptoms.

Susan also addresses related concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, guilt and shame, and isolation. She supports people navigating divorce, separation, and midlife transitions, and offers guidance to veterans and those with military backgrounds.

Her style is patient and encouraging, with an emphasis on real-world tools that can be used between sessions. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.

How evidence-based techniques guide online therapy

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques refer to approaches that focus on practical skills and measurable steps to reduce symptoms. In Susan's work this often means helping people learn coping strategies for anxiety and stress, and teaching clearer communication skills for relationship and family concerns. These methods are aimed at everyday problems like panic, worry, arguments, and caregiver strain.

Another common element is trauma-informed care that helps people safely talk through difficult events and their impacts. This approach supports processing painful memories and reducing their hold on daily life by building manageable skills and pacing the work to each person's readiness.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Susan will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences, then suggest techniques that fit. The plan can change as things progress, and she will check in regularly to make sure the work feels useful and realistic.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because the biography does not list formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. If you prefer a certain session length or style, mention it during the matching process so scheduling can reflect your needs.