Dr. Susan Schaming, LPC

Dr. Susan Schaming helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, depression, and major life changes. She offers coaching for career and professional challenges and support for issues like abandonment, blended family dynamics, addiction, and caregiver stress. Dr. Schaming is a Licensed Professional Counselor with long experience in clinical and educational settings.

She brings 38 years of practice across PK-12 schools, universities, hospitals, and mental health services. That variety gave her a range of ways to approach problems. She believes people are the experts on their own lives and works to help them spot strengths and options.

Her sessions mix practical strategies and reflective work. She uses techniques from cognitive approaches and dialectical behavior methods alongside narrative and existential ideas. Clients often leave a first meeting with a simple homework step to try between sessions.

Dr. Schaming emphasizes listening, empathy, and compassionate support when people are grieving or feeling empty or depressed. She also helps with communication, commitment questions, and the fallout from separation or divorce. The focus is on doable changes rather than long lists of theory.

She holds LPC licensure in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and draws on many years in different workplaces to shape her approach. Schedule preferences can include some early evening and limited weekend times to fit busy lives. To begin, prospective clients use the site Start Therapy process to match and schedule.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping the person find their own solutions. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help people notice strengths and make choices that fit their lives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful habits and lift mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication in stressful moments.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what seems most useful, then try methods that match those goals. Clients and therapist can adapt techniques over time if something feels off or a different focus is needed.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also support consistent practice of CBT or DBT skills between meetings, since homework and skill drills transfer easily to daily life. The therapist will help plan how to make therapy work in your routine.