Susan Davis, LMFT

Therapist in California

Susan Davis is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 35 years of clinical experience.

Licensed inCalifornia
License19986
NPI 1033296843
Experience35+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Susan

Susan Davis is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 35 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, and major life changes. Susan approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion to make the first steps feel manageable.

She draws on several familiar therapy styles to shape sessions to each person’s needs. Sessions are conversational and practical.

Background and approach

Susan listens first, then helps create a clear plan with achievable steps. She blends skills training with deeper exploration of patterns that affect current life and relationships. Susan has worked in independent practice and in training roles across clinical settings.

She has overseen a training program for marriage and family therapy interns and supervised psychiatric residents during their therapy hours. She has also served as an adjunct professor at three universities and coauthored two books on community mental health. In sessions she tailors talk and exercises to what a person actually brings in.

That might mean practicing coping skills, identifying unhelpful thinking, or looking at how early attachment shapes current relationships. She aims for practical tools people can use between meetings as well as space to process stronger emotions. Her California licensure is LMFT, which reflects 35 years working with individuals in clinical and educational roles.

Susan uses a direct but caring style to help people find clearer ways forward.

Credentials

LMFT (California): License 19986 · expires April 2026
NPI: 1033296843 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Susan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Grief
Parenting issues
Depression
Family conflicts
Intimacy-related issues
Coping with life changes

Approaches Susan names

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Online support

Attachment and Skill-Based Approaches for Online Care

Susan commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns. This approach helps people see where old ways of relating still affect how they connect and feel close to others. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the person's experience in a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation and helps people feel heard while they decide what changes to try. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used alongside these approaches, focuses on practical exercises to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try techniques that match your needs, and adjust the plan as you go. That means sessions may include both talk and hands-on skills practice, with choices about which method feels most useful for you.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders or short updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.

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Frequently asked

What kinds of concerns does she address?

Susan works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, family strain, and coping with life changes.

How would you describe her therapy style?

Her style blends client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches to teach coping skills and change unhelpful patterns.

What is her professional background?

She has 35 years of experience in clinical practice, supervision, teaching, and coauthoring work on community mental health.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is a California LMFT and has practiced and taught in California settings.

Which languages are used in sessions?

Sessions are offered in English only.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.

How are costs handled?

Session costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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