Dr. Susan Schaming, LPC

Dr. Susan Schaming is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 38 years of clinical experience, licensed to practice in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her career spans work in PK-12 schools, mental health agencies, university settings, and hospitals, giving her a broad perspective on individual and family needs.

She supports people facing relationship challenges, parenting concerns, depression and anxiety, and major life transitions. She also offers coaching for executives and professionals and assists with school-related issues. Trained in cognitive and dialectical behavior therapies, she weaves these evidence-informed methods into a flexible, person-focused practice rather than allowing any single modality to define the work.

Dr. Schaming views each person as the expert on their own life and focuses on identifying strengths clients can use to meet challenges and build a life they want. She often provides practical steps and homework beginning with the first session to help clients start making changes right away. Known for compassion, empathy, and active listening, she offers steady support for those healing from grief or coping with depression.

Having benefited from therapy herself at different times, she values counseling as a pathway to better living. She is able to offer some early evening and weekend appointments on a limited basis to accommodate client schedules.

Online Therapeutic Approaches and Support

Dr. Susan Schaming integrates client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to support clients in an online format. Client-centered therapy focuses on the individual as the expert of their own life and emphasizes empathy and active listening to help people explore values, meaning, and relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and offers practical strategies to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and to cope with life changes. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides concrete skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be especially useful for managing intense emotions and improving communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Dr. Schaming works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques from these approaches to match the client rather than forcing a single model onto the work.

Online therapy with Dr. Schaming can take place by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend sessions from home, work, or while traveling, and to choose the format that feels most effective for each person.