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- 26 years experience
- LMFT California
- Client-centered care
About Susan
Susan Faix is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 26 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship challenges. Her work also covers addictions, parenting concerns, and issues that affect daily functioning like sleep or eating difficulties.
She aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are framed around the individual's needs, and she adapts conversations and plans to fit what matters most to the client. The tone is practical and supportive, with an emphasis on steps people can take between sessions.
Susan uses several therapeutic approaches to guide work in session. She incorporates attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Client-centered techniques are used to keep conversations focused on the client's priorities and pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps address unhelpful thoughts and habits that feed anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered for emotion regulation and crisis coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques can support people working through painful or stuck emotional experiences.
People often come for help with transitions such as divorce, caregiving stress, or job changes. Susan also supports those dealing with trauma, abandonment concerns, and long-term mood conditions while tailoring work to each person's goals. To begin, the therapist asks about current struggles and what the client hopes to change.
She aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are framed around the individual's needs, and she adapts conversations and plans to fit what matters most to the client. The tone is practical and supportive, with an emphasis on steps people can take between sessions.
Susan uses several therapeutic approaches to guide work in session. She incorporates attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Client-centered techniques are used to keep conversations focused on the client's priorities and pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps address unhelpful thoughts and habits that feed anxiety or depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered for emotion regulation and crisis coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques can support people working through painful or stuck emotional experiences.
People often come for help with transitions such as divorce, caregiving stress, or job changes. Susan also supports those dealing with trauma, abandonment concerns, and long-term mood conditions while tailoring work to each person's goals. To begin, the therapist asks about current struggles and what the client hopes to change.
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How Susan's Approaches Translate to Online Work
Susan uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how past relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at connection, trust, and how emotions get triggered in close relationships, which can help with intimacy-related issues and relationship stress.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and many everyday concerns where changing patterns matters.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then pick or blend methods to fit those needs. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
If you plan to meet online, please confirm available session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also make it simpler to keep appointments during transitions like a move or a change in work schedule, while still allowing the same conversational and skills-based work used in traditional sessions.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderDepressionCoping with life changesCoachingADHD
Additional focus areas
AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationDrug and alcohol addictionEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMood disordersPhobiasPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems
Experience
26+ years
Credentials
California
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
Susan works with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and parenting difficulties, sleep and eating issues, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
The approach is respectful and practical. Conversations are guided by what the client wants to work on and include steps to try between sessions.
How much experience does this therapist have?
She has 26 years of professional experience working with people on a variety of mental health and life challenges.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in California and practices there.
Are sessions available in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
International clients are not accepted at this time.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.