Susan Berg , LMFT

Susan Berg is a California-licensed therapist with four decades of professional experience supporting people through relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and parenting concerns. She draws on long experience to offer steady, thoughtful guidance while honoring each person as the expert of their own story. Susan views clients as possessing strengths and resources that can be mobilized to face life’s difficulties and to move toward greater well-being.

She believes that seeking change requires courage, and she aims to provide support and empowerment at each step of that journey. Susan encourages practical, hopeful progress and helps clients identify the skills and perspectives that best fit their situation. As a licensed professional, she centers collaboration and respect while helping clients navigate transitions, process painful experiences, and strengthen relationships.

Susan’s approach emphasizes partnership - she listens carefully, affirms strengths, and works with people to build meaningful, sustainable change. Her practice is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a commitment to helping clients pursue a more fulfilling and happier life.

Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Therapy

Susan Berg uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to relationship, trauma, grief, and parenting concerns. She often employs trauma-focused interventions that help people process difficult memories and reduce their impact on daily life, and she uses relational or family-systems approaches to address communication patterns, blended family dynamics, and connection challenges in partnerships.

She views the choice of technique as a collaborative process. Susan works with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and together they determine which methods are likely to be the best fit. Clients are involved in planning treatment and in adjusting the approach as progress is made.

Online therapy with Susan is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend sessions from home, manage ongoing parenting or caregiving responsibilities, and maintain continuity of care when life becomes busy, while still working with a licensed professional to pursue meaningful change.