Susan Baltimore

Susan Baltimore is a licensed clinical social worker with 40 years of experience in California. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and loneliness. Her approach is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical steps people can use between sessions.

She works with people facing trauma and abuse, attachment struggles, social anxiety, and mood disorders. Susan pays attention to life transitions such as divorce, caregiving stress, and changes around becoming a parent. She also helps with body image concerns, guilt, and finding clearer life purpose.

Susan uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and shapes each plan around the person's needs and goals. In sessions she emphasizes listening, clarifying patterns, and trying small, concrete changes that build over time. The work tends to focus on what feels most urgent and what can help in everyday life.

Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She aims to help people name painful emotions, trace how past experiences influence current relationships, and practice new ways of coping. Many clients find the steady, experienced presence useful during big life transitions.

People who are lonely or isolated often come for help finding connection, rebuilding routines, and easing social anxiety. Susan supports that process with steady guidance, practical strategies, and attention to what matters most to each person.

How evidence-based techniques fit into online care

Many of Susan Baltimore's sessions draw on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. One common approach focuses on teaching skills to reduce anxiety and regulate mood through step-by-step practice, which can help with social anxiety, panic, and persistent worry. Another approach centers on processing grief and trauma in small, paced steps so memories and feelings become easier to manage and interfere less with daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That means trying things, checking what helps, and shifting methods when needed so the plan feels useful and realistic.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when a brief conversation will help. It also lets people keep steady contact during life transitions and follow a regular plan of small, actionable steps between meetings.