Susan Baltimore, LCSW

Susan Baltimore is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in California with forty years of clinical experience. She works with adults navigating depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, grief, and other major life transitions, drawing on a long career helping people regain emotional balance and purpose.

Susan offers an evidence-based, compassionate approach that honors each person’s individual story. Her practice includes focused care for attachment concerns, body image issues, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety and phobia. She has particular experience supporting new mothers, couples in conflict, individuals facing separation, and older adults and caregivers.

Her therapeutic style centers on providing a non-judgmental space where people can explore painful experiences, process loss, and develop practical strategies for day-to-day emotional well-being. She emphasizes collaboration and empathy, helping clients identify strengths, rebuild resilience, and reconnect with life purpose. With a steady, supportive presence, Susan partners with clients as they work through difficult emotional terrain with dignity and hope.

Evidence-based techniques for online emotional care

Susan applies evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and build more effective coping strategies. These approaches are useful for conditions such as depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and social phobia because they focus on practical skills for managing symptoms and improving daily functioning.

She also uses trauma-informed methods that enable clients to process painful memories and reduce their emotional impact over time. These techniques can support recovery from abuse, post-traumatic stress, and other forms of emotional injury by pacing work to each person’s readiness and resilience.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Susan collaborates with each person to identify which evidence-based methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress and circumstances evolve. She works in partnership with clients to shape care that feels personally meaningful.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, support continuity during life transitions, and extend access to licensed professionals without the need to travel.