About Susan
Susan Galewaler uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people cope and make change. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC in Texas with 30 years of professional experience. Susan writes plainly and focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her.
Susan helps people manage stress and anxiety in daily life. She supports those dealing with depression, trauma, and abuse. Relationship and family concerns are also a common focus in her work.
Background and approach
Many people come to her with problems like attachment wounds, abandonment fears, or communication breakdowns. She also works with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and issues that follow divorce or separation. Other areas she addresses include guilt and shame, forgiveness, impulsivity, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
Susan aims to make sessions a place where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. She works with each person to set goals and try approaches that fit their situation. The focus is on clear steps and steady progress, not jargon.
Her background includes decades of practice in Texas and contributions to family assessment resources used in custody contexts. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. Starting therapy with her means filling out a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits your life.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Evidence-based techniques focus on clear, practical steps people can try between sessions. For example, a skills-based approach teaches simple strategies for managing stress and anxiety, such as breathing exercises, activity planning, and thinking skills that reduce worry. These tools are useful for day-to-day relief and improving mood.Another common focus is trauma-informed care, which helps people make sense of difficult events and reduce their impact. This approach emphasizes pacing, safety in the therapeutic relationship, and gradual work on painful memories and reactions. It can help with symptoms of trauma, trust issues, and intrusive memories.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, try different techniques, and adjust based on what helps. Together you decide which methods fit your needs, timing, and comfort level.
Online sessions offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging enable brief exchanges and check-ins during busy weeks. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family life while keeping consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English