About Susan
Susan J Razavi is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW-R) practicing in New York with 35 years of experience. She blends long experience with a practical, person-focused approach. People come to her for help with anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She listens closely and treats each person as an individual. She avoids labels and focuses on what will make day-to-day life feel safer and more manageable.
How Susan works
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs. Conversations might draw on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values. She may use client-centered techniques to slow down and follow what matters most to the client.
Sessions can also include mindfulness practices and psychodynamic conversation to understand recurring patterns. Solution-focused work is used when people want clear, short-term steps to change a specific problem. Susan also works with concerns such as abandonment and attachment issues, blended family stress, caregiver strain, communication and control problems, and challenges after divorce or disaster.
She helps people cope with eating and food-related issues, impulsivity, isolation, guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose. Her aim is to help people find realistic ways to manage emotions and make choices that match their values. She supports people as they take steps toward calmer, more purposeful daily life.
Susan lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Susan works with
The areas below are the ones Susan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Susan often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. ACT is useful when someone feels stuck by anxiety or uncertainty and wants to reconnect with everyday goals.She also uses client-centered methods, which means the conversation follows the person’s pace and priorities. This helps when someone needs a safe space to be heard and to make decisions without pressure.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then recommend an approach or mix of approaches. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Please confirm the therapist’s current session options before booking, since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as attending from a break at work or reducing travel time. It can allow shorter check-ins when that better suits a schedule, or sessions that focus on guided mindfulness practice without leaving the day’s routine.
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