Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
How Susan works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- Indiana, California
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Susan
Susan Johnston is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with eight years of clinical experience based in Indiana. She returned to school as an adult and has built a varied career across outpatient clinics, residential and group homes, inpatient care, and college settings. Susan aims to help people who are overwhelmed by stress, struggling with relationships, or coping with major life changes.
Her background includes work in addiction treatment where she supported individuals and family members as they rebuilt trust and hope.
Background and approach
She has worked alongside interpreters with immigrant and refugee families, which shaped her ability to respect different cultural experiences and languages. That experience informs how she approaches conversations about identity, grief, and trauma. Susan blends humanistic and experiential ideas with emotional and cognitive work rooted in family systems theory.
In practice this means she pays attention to feelings, life stories, and the relationships that shape daily behavior. She favors practical steps people can try between sessions alongside deeper conversations during meetings. Sessions often focus on concrete goals such as managing anger, improving communication, or building coping skills for anxiety and depression.
She also supports people dealing with intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and career-related dilemmas. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, aiming to tailor the work to each person’s needs. People who prefer a therapist who listens, offers clear strategies, and works from real-world experience may find her approach helpful.
Susan frames therapy as a team effort where progress comes from trying new ways of thinking and acting.
What Susan works with
Everything Susan lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Susan's practice.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online work
Many of Susan's methods focus on practical, evidence-based techniques that address feelings and relationships. For example, cognitive techniques help people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts that fuel anxiety, anger, or low mood and provide specific steps to try between sessions. Family systems-informed work looks at how relationships and patterns affect behaviors, helping people notice and change interaction habits that keep problems alive.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Susan works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. She discusses options, recommends exercises, and checks in to see what is working so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing coaching-style support between appointments. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
Questions people ask about Susan
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, anger, addictions, grief, trauma, intimacy problems, parenting strain, career worries, and LGBT-related concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is team-based and practical, blending humanistic, experiential, emotional, and cognitive work rooted in family systems ideas to create tailored plans.
What is her clinical background?
She has eight years of experience across office settings, residential and group homes, inpatient care, intensive outpatient programs, probation services, and college counseling environments.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LMFT credential and practices in Indiana; her licensing includes California and Indiana LMFT designations as provided.
Which languages are used in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, and she has experience working with interpreters for other language needs in past roles.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different scheduling or communication needs.
How is cost handled?
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?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling based on therapist availability.