Susan Garner, LMFT

Susan Garner is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of clinical experience. She helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, depression, grief, and other life disruptions. Her approach is direct and compassionate, focused on understanding what brought someone to therapy and setting clear goals together.

Susan uses conversational work and evidence-informed tools to help clients find more stable footing. She combines client-centered listening with practical techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Mindfulness and attention to emotions are woven into sessions to increase self-awareness and calm.

She often looks at how family history and attachment patterns affect current relationships. That can include exploring abandonment, communication problems, or blended family issues. Sessions may address intimacy concerns, infidelity, trust, and rebuilding connection after separation.

Susan also offers help with identity, self-esteem, body image, and codependency. Career stress, midlife transitions, and coping with bipolar symptoms are within her experience. She emphasizes small, manageable steps so change feels achievable.

People can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space where they and the therapist define priorities together. Her work draws on psychodynamic ideas about life stories and on cognitive behavioral techniques for symptom relief. Over time the goal is clearer choices, better emotion regulation, and improved relationships.