Susan Garon, LMFT

Susan Garon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of professional experience. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on helping people make meaningful changes in day-to-day life.

Susan works with concerns like stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, relationships, and coping with life changes. She also pays attention to adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric issues, attachment, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family challenges, and communication problems.

Her approach is conversational and tailored. Sessions emphasize clear goals, workable strategies, and time to talk through what matters most. She uses methods including cognitive behavioral approaches, client-centered listening, dialectical behavior skills, and emotionally focused work to help people shift patterns that cause pain.

Susan describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people name what’s getting in the way, try new ways of responding, and practice small steps that add up. She also brings existential perspectives when people are wrestling with life purpose or midlife transitions.

People who choose her often want a steady, respectful guide and concrete tools alongside thoughtful conversation. Her experience includes work with grief, divorce and separation, family problems, guilt and shame, isolation, and issues faced by veterans and armed forces members.

Susan is licensed as an LMFT in Florida and Kentucky and sees people in Florida. Sessions are offered in English and are arranged to meet each person’s needs.

How Susan’s approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and for building clearer routines and coping strategies. Client-centered therapy centers on empathic listening and supporting each person’s own goals, which can help people feel heard and choose their next steps. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships and problem-solving.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and try methods that match what they need. Sessions are collaborative - goals and techniques are adjusted as progress is made.

Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing support and brief reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep a steady rhythm between sessions.