About Susan
Susan Gallagher is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Washington. She offers calm, straightforward support for people facing grief, anxiety, depression, anger, and big life changes. Her style is warm and respectful, and she aims to make each session productive and easy to follow.
Susan focuses on helping people build confidence and manage stress. She helps clients who are navigating relationship and intimacy concerns, career questions, ADHD, bipolar mood struggles, and issues around identity such as LGBT matters and gender dysphoria.
Background and approach
Practical steps and simple tools are part of how she works. Her approach blends acceptance-based work with problem-solving skills. Sessions often include ways to notice difficult feelings, then act in line with personal values.
She also uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and solution-focused ideas to set short-term goals. Susan brings eight years of post-licensure experience in the Washington area. She creates a nonjudgmental space where people can talk about shame, guilt, body image, caregiver stress, or past family problems.
She supports people dealing with abandonment, aging concerns, and neurodiversity topics like autism and Asperger syndrome. People who want flexible contact options can work with her through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
Approach, goals, and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take small steps toward what matters. It can be useful for grief, anxiety, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical ways to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the client’s experience guides the work and the therapist offers empathy and support.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Susan will work with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals and preferences. That collaboration means trying things, reviewing what helps, and adjusting plans as needs change.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone can be a quicker option with lower bandwidth needs. Chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, ongoing support, or when typed communication feels more comfortable. These formats increase flexibility and let people choose what works for their schedule and communication style.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English