Susan Van Wazer, LPC

Susan Van Wazer is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Missouri with 30 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who want to manage stress, anger, relationship strain, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and life transitions. She also supports people exploring identity and LGBT concerns and those coping with trauma and compassion fatigue.

Susan describes common patterns that keep people stuck and looks for how those patterns began. She uses family systems ideas to map relationship influences and to show where repetitive dynamics come from. She pairs that with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on practical steps people can try to change thoughts and behaviors that feed anger and anxiety.

Her background includes program development and supervising other clinicians, plus administrative roles like grant management and events. She has worked in a range of communities from big cities to small towns, which she says gives her a broad perspective on different life contexts. Her biography notes long experience helping people recover from traumatic childhood experiences and ongoing post-traumatic stress reactions.

In sessions she emphasizes noticing patterns, naming what keeps them going, and practicing small changes that reduce reactivity. She also draws on existential and Jungian ideas when exploring meaning, life purpose, and identity questions. Mindfulness techniques are used to help people slow down and notice urges before they turn into actions.

Susan is comfortable working with people addressing parenting concerns, career decisions, midlife transitions, codependency, and women’s issues. She offers services in English and accepts international clients. To begin, readers are asked to use the See online therapy options button and complete the brief matching questionnaire.

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