Susan Van Wazer, LPC

Missouri · 30 years in practice

Susan Van Wazer is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience who focuses on helping people navigate stress, relationships, mood struggles, and major life changes.

License and registration

LPC, Missouri: 001866 · expires June 2027
NPI: 1427143585 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 30
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Susan

Susan Van Wazer is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience who focuses on helping people navigate stress, relationships, mood struggles, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and offers steady, practical support for people coping with anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and career or parenting strain. Susan often looks at how repeated patterns and family dynamics keep people stuck.

She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice those patterns and try different ways of responding.

Background and approach

Her background includes work with trauma, post-traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue, and she supports people processing past abuse or difficult childhood experiences. Her approach emphasizes collaboration. Sessions typically involve listening, identifying patterns, and trying small, concrete changes that build toward bigger goals.

Mindfulness ideas and existential questions about life purpose and meaning appear when they help a person make clearer choices. Susan has experience developing programs, supervising other clinicians, and handling administrative roles such as grants and events. She has worked in both large city and small town settings across the country, bringing a broad perspective to practical life and work problems.

People who want clear conversation about patterns, straightforward behavioral steps, and attention to deeper life questions may find her approach useful. She offers help for concerns like codependency, social anxiety, midlife transitions, and women’s issues, and aims to tailor work to each person’s goals.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Susan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Depression
Coping with life changes
Addictions
LGBT
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Codependency
Family problems
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Post-traumatic stress
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues

Approaches Susan names

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Online support

How Jungian ideas and practical methods work online

Jungian-informed work pays attention to patterns, dreams, and deeper personal meaning. In online sessions this can look like talking through recurring themes in life, reflecting on symbols or dreams, and linking those patterns to current choices and relationships.

Client-centered therapy focuses on a respectful, accepting conversation where the therapist listens closely and follows the client's concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) brings that listening together with clear steps - identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying different behaviors, and tracking small changes over time. Both approaches can help with anxiety, depression, relationship issues, and coping with life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to emphasize based on needs, goals, and preferences. That shared planning can change as progress is made or as new concerns arise.

Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to increase flexibility and keep regular momentum in therapy.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of problems does she help with?

Susan works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, coping with life changes, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, anger, self esteem, career questions, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue.

What is her general therapy style?

She combines client-centered listening with practical methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. That means sessions mix careful listening, reflection on patterns, and trying specific behavioral changes.

How long has she been practicing?

She has 30 years of experience working in a variety of settings, including program development and clinician supervision.

What credentials and region are listed for this therapist?

She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - and is based in Missouri.

Can I see her if I live outside the United States?

Sessions are offered to international clients in addition to those in Missouri. Sessions are conducted in English.

Which session formats are available?

Sessions may be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving several ways to connect depending on preference.

How does billing and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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