About Susan
Susan J Razavi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) based in New York with 35 years of experience. She combines psychotherapeutic skills and life-coaching perspective to help people move through stressful transitions and overwhelming feelings. Her manner is warm and steady, intended to make it easier to take the first step toward change.
She focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem struggles, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse and helps with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, communication problems, and caregiver strain. Her background includes long experience helping people recover after physical trauma and emotional harm. Susan uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs.
That includes somatic work that pays attention to body sensations, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action, mindfulness to calm reactivity, client-centered methods to build trust, and psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns from the past. She adapts sessions to the person rather than following one fixed method. Sessions are conversational and practical.
People can expect gentle reflection, guidance on coping skills, and help making small, doable changes between meetings. She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats each person with respect and sensitivity. Susan aims to create an encouraging space where people feel heard and guided toward clearer choices.
If someone wants steady support while they work through loss, anxiety, or life shifts, she offers experience and a calm, person-focused approach.
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Somatic Therapy pays attention to how emotions and stress show up in the body. It can help when anxiety or trauma feel physical, like tightness, breath changes, or endless tension. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on what matters to you and small actions that align with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Client-Centered Therapy centers on a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s own goals and pace guide the work.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide what feels most helpful based on their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean trying somatic techniques for body-based symptoms, adding ACT tools for values-based action, or using client-centered listening to build safety and trust.
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which online formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten check-ins when time is limited, or allow therapy without needing travel time. It can also make it simpler to continue support during life transitions by meeting from wherever a person is that day. Licensed professionals adapt approaches to work well across the available online session types.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English