Susan Wildemann, LCSW

Susan Wildemann is a licensed clinical social worker with 33 years of practice. She lives in New York and brings long experience to concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. She also supports people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, and intellectual disability challenges.

Susan’s sessions are warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy along with mindfulness, psychodynamic, solution-focused, and trauma-focused approaches to shape each plan.

In a meeting with Susan, clients can expect practical conversation. She helps people identify small changes and test them between sessions. She also uses mindfulness practices to calm intense feelings and build daytime habits that improve sleeping and stress management.

Susan pays attention to the life context around symptoms. That means looking at work demands, caregiving burden, or the effects of a past injury or trauma when making a plan. She adapts strategy and pace to what each person can manage right now.

The focus is on clear goals and steady progress. Sessions may include skill practice, steps to change thinking patterns, and time to talk through painful memories when that’s needed. Susan aims to help people feel more able to cope and move forward.

How evidence-based approaches work online

Susan commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT focuses on small, measurable steps and practical exercises that can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.

She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and increase tolerance for tough emotions. Mindfulness is helpful for stress, chronic pain, and improving focus during difficult days.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Susan will discuss goals, prior experiences with therapy, and what feels most useful, then shape sessions around those preferences in a collaborative way.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill demonstrations and guided mindfulness. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during busy days. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter touchpoint helps someone stay on track.