Susan Faix, LMFT

Susan Faix is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing addiction, grief, parenting stresses, and relationship friction. She aims to meet clients with respect, sensitivity, and compassion as they take the step toward change.

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions focus on the problems you bring and on practical ways to feel steadier day to day. She adapts conversation and plans to each person's situation rather than using a single method for everyone.

Over more than two decades she has worked with people managing anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, and trauma and abuse. She also supports concerns like caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, communication problems, and life transitions. Her work includes attention to intimacy, self-esteem, sleep and eating difficulties, and coping after loss.

Susan draws on a mix of approaches to suit the issue at hand. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and client-centered listening to make space for each person's perspective. Dialectical and emotionally focused methods are also part of her toolbox when they fit the client's goals.

People who reach out to her can expect clear, practical steps alongside emotional support. The focus is on learning skills, improving relationships, and finding realistic ways to manage stress and change.

Therapeutic approaches and how they translate online

Susan commonly uses attachment-based therapy to look at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections; this helps with intimacy issues, caregiving stress, and communication struggles. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and problematic habits.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you progress. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques are most useful.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, with shorter check-ins or sessions that avoid travel time. It can also let people keep therapy in the same routine when managing caregiving, work schedules, or mobility constraints. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and attachment-focused work to an online setting so you still practice skills, review progress, and work on relationship patterns without changing the therapeutic aims.