Susan Hewitt, LCSW

Susan Hewitt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 27 years of experience. She creates a warm, affirming, and compassionate space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, and related struggles. Her manner is supportive and straightforward to help people take small steps forward.

Susan uses a holistic outlook that pays attention to mind, body, and spirit. Sessions often address how physical health, beliefs, and emotions connect to daily stress and mood. She helps people name patterns, practice coping skills, and try new ways of responding to worry and panic.

Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient settings, school-based services, and primary care clinics. That variety shapes a practical approach focused on day-to-day challenges. She has worked with the LGBTQIA community and brings awareness to issues they commonly face.

Common concerns she helps people with include anxiety, depression, panic, compassion fatigue, and social anxiety. She also supports people dealing with communication problems, divorce or separation, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love.

Sessions aim to be nonjudgmental and compassionate while encouraging realistic change. Susan invites people to explore their goals at a comfortable pace and to find strategies that fit their life. She looks forward to meeting people ready to begin the work.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques generally include structured, skill-focused work and exploration of how thoughts and behaviors connect to feelings. For example, a skills-based approach teaches practical tools for managing anxiety and panic, such as grounding, breathing, and breaking problems into smaller steps. These tools help people handle immediate stress and build confidence over time.

An interpersonal or relational focus looks at patterns in communication and connections with others. This helps when worry or mood issues are tied to conflicts, social anxiety, or difficulty saying no. Sessions often involve talking through real situations and trying new ways of interacting.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals and preferences and suggest techniques that fit those needs. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the formats offered before booking since the biography does not specify them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel, and allow short check-ins when needed. Different formats also let people choose less camera time or quicker calls depending on what works best for them.