Susan Charney , LCSW

Susan Charney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Arizona with 26 years of experience helping people navigate complex life transitions and personal challenges. As an LCSW, she combines formal clinical training in social work with extensive hands-on therapeutic practice to support clients at different stages of life.

Her style is compassionate and individualized, shaped around each person's unique needs and goals. She brings particular expertise in relationship dynamics, intimacy-related concerns, and developing healthier self-esteem, and she works with clients facing significant life changes. Her practice also addresses communication difficulties, feelings of isolation, exploration of life purpose, workplace challenges, and ongoing personal growth.

Drawing on decades of clinical experience, she offers supportive guidance through midlife transitions, young-adult issues, multicultural concerns, and healing from complex emotional experiences. Susan focuses on helping people build deeper self-understanding, process past events, and create practical pathways forward. Her work emphasizes affirmation, strength building, and cultivating genuine self-compassion as clients work toward meaningful change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Susan Charney draws from client-centered therapy to place the person's own goals and values at the center of the work, offering empathic listening and support that helps clients define what matters most and take steps toward those priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to help identify unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior and to develop practical strategies for managing anxiety, stress, and mood challenges. Mindfulness therapy introduces present-moment awareness and grounding practices that many people find helpful for reducing reactivity and improving emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Susan works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts techniques as progress unfolds.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to attend sessions from home or between other responsibilities. These formats can help people maintain continuity of care, work around busy days, and access licensed professionals from different locations while pursuing their therapeutic goals.