About Susana
Susana Garcia is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who uses body-centered work alongside talk therapy. She blends movement, mindfulness, and emotion-focused tools to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She offers practical support for LGBT issues and related topics like gender dysphoria, sexuality, and body image.
With 14 years in the mental health field, Susana combines several approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises and attention to physical sensations to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Dialectical skills help manage intense emotions and improve day-to-day coping. Susana also brings somatic practices into sessions to help people reconnect with bodily experience after trauma or dissociation. This can make it easier to notice triggers, discharge tension, and feel steadier in daily life.
Trauma-focused techniques provide a structure for safely processing past harm at a pace that feels manageable. She works with topics that range from prejudice and discrimination to polyamory and kink-related concerns, offering nonjudgmental discussion and practical strategies. Conversations focus on what clients want to change and small steps they can try between sessions.
Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth style that centers lived experience and personal goals. Sessions aim to build skills, increase self-awareness, and support clearer decision making. Susana practices in Florida and offers multiple online formats for ongoing work.
Online options using mindfulness, DBT, and somatic work
Susana commonly uses dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills and mindfulness techniques in online sessions. DBT skills teach concrete strategies for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive reactions. Mindfulness therapy emphasizes present-moment noticing and simple exercises to reduce rumination and increase calm.She also integrates somatic methods that help people reconnect with bodily signals after stress or trauma. Somatic work focuses on breathing, gentle movement, and noticing sensations to lower tension and build more reliable self-regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. She will work collaboratively to identify which methods match a person's goals and comfort level. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills training, body-centered exercises, or trauma-focused steps and adjust as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits through flexible formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy work and demonstrations, phone sessions can fit into a workday or be used when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging allow for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and try different approaches without major scheduling barriers.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Depression
- Gender dysphoria
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English