About Susan
Dr. Susan Schaming helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, depression, and big life changes. She also offers coaching for professionals and guidance around issues such as abandonment, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and substance concerns.
Dr. Schaming is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 38 years of experience and works from a practical, straightforward stance. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She listens first, then helps people spot strengths and small steps that lead to change.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple exercises or short tasks to try between meetings so progress can start right away. Her background includes work in PK-12 schools, universities, hospitals, and community mental health settings. Those years shaped a flexible style that adapts to different needs and schedules.
She understands how life transitions, grief, and family history can affect daily functioning. Dr. Schaming uses several therapeutic approaches depending on the person and the problem.
She draws on cognitive and dialectical behavior methods when helpful, and also uses client-centered and narrative ideas to help people make sense of their experiences. The goal is practical change that fits each person's life. People can expect a warm, listening presence and clear suggestions to practice between sessions.
She can arrange some early evening and weekend appointments when needed, and works with clients to find a rhythm that supports steady progress.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Dr. Schaming uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person's perspective and strengths, helping people feel heard and understood as they work through relationship, parenting, or life transition issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try small experiments that change mood and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication when stress or conflict feels overwhelming.Choosing the best approach is part of the therapeutic work. She will collaborate with each client to decide which methods suit their goals, preferences, and daily demands. That shared planning helps keep sessions focused and relevant to real-life problems.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework discussion, or staying connected between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week while working toward steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English