About Susanne
Susanne Loar is an LCSW with 15 years of practice helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, and life changes. She draws on somatic ideas alongside talk-based methods to help people feel steadier in their bodies and lives. Susanne creates a calm, collaborative space where clients can name what matters and try small, practical steps toward change.
She approaches problems as meaningful signals rather than just symptoms. That view helps people understand why certain patterns started and how they might shift them.
Background and approach
Conversations are grounded and down-to-earth, with attention to what shows up in the body as well as in thoughts and feelings. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient substance use disorder settings, public mental health agencies, hospital-based inpatient mental health, and the neonatal intensive care unit. She also supervises associate social workers and substance use specialists.
This variety has shaped a flexible way of working that draws on many methods rather than a single formula. In sessions Susanne mixes practical tools with reflective inquiry. She uses approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to help manage anxiety and depression.
Attachment-focused work is used to look at relationship patterns and how early experiences affect current connections. Susanne works with people who face grief, trauma, parenting stress, career pressure, ADHD, and issues around intimacy and self-worth. She speaks English and practices in North Carolina.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for those who prefer remote care.
How Somatic and Evidence-Based Approaches Work Online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how stress and emotion show up in the body, using gentle exercises and awareness to reduce tension and increase grounding. This approach can help with anxiety, trauma responses, and chronic stress by giving concrete ways to notice and shift physical sensations.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it emphasizes meaningful action rather than trying to eliminate all uncomfortable feelings.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and coping habits. It helps people understand recurring interaction styles and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify what feels most helpful based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they will try tools and adapt methods until a comfortable fit emerges.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people access consistent care from home or elsewhere, fit sessions into busy schedules, and use shorter or more frequent contacts when that suits their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English