Susan Haffert, LCSW
Practical, experienced support for parental stress and life changes
Book with Susan- Years in practice
- 30
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Susan
Susan Haffert is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience in New Jersey. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and parenting challenges. Her approach is direct and respectful, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more able to cope.
Susan uses straightforward conversation and collaborative planning to address relationship strains, low self-esteem, career stress, and addictions. She listens for what matters most to each person and adjusts goals as issues change.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match a client's needs and energy level. People who bring trauma, grief, or anger often start by naming immediate concerns. Susan helps break those problems into manageable steps.
She also works with issues such as caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and complications around divorce and separation. Susan draws on many evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailors them to the person in front of her. Her style is compassionate and practical rather than academic.
She aims to build useful skills that can be used between sessions. Over three decades she has supported people facing bipolar mood swings, obsessive behaviors, and eating or food-related difficulties. Many clients appreciate having a steady, experienced clinician to talk through life transitions, fatherhood issues, or feelings of isolation.
Susan encourages small, concrete changes that add up over time.
What Susan works with
Everything Susan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Susan helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
How evidence-based techniques translate to online sessions
Susan uses several evidence-based approaches in ways that are practical and goal-focused. One commonly used approach teaches specific coping and problem-solving steps to reduce anxiety and manage mood swings; it focuses on small changes that can make daily life feel easier. Another approach emphasizes building better communication and boundaries to address relationship strain, codependency, and family problems; it centers on practicing new skills in real situations.Choosing the right approach is part of the early work. Susan collaborates with each person to identify goals and tries methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust plans over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short updates, behavioral coaching, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
Questions people ask about Susan
What concerns does Susan commonly address?
Susan helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship strain, self-esteem, career problems, addictions, grief, trauma, anger, and bipolar mood issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and compassionate with a focus on clear conversation and collaborative planning. Sessions aim to build skills and break problems into manageable steps.
How much experience does she bring to sessions?
She has 30 years of professional work experience in social work and clinical practice in New Jersey.
What credentials and location are on file?
Susan holds the LCSW credential and practices in New Jersey as documented in her profile.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
She works with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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