Susan Haffert, LCSW
Licensed in New Jersey · 30 years in practice
Susan Haffert is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and relationship strains.
License and registration
- LCSW, New Jersey
- 44SC00300700 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1356449839 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
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About Susan
Susan Haffert is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and relationship strains. She works from New Jersey and focuses on practical, day-to-day changes that make life feel more manageable. Her approach is respectful and down-to-earth, aimed at meeting each person where they are.
Her sessions focus on clear goals such as reducing worry, improving self-esteem, and finding better ways to handle work and career pressures.
Background and approach
She also helps people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and mood disorders like bipolar. Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on concrete steps you can try between meetings. Susan tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation, listening first before suggesting next steps.
She pays attention to family dynamics, parenting concerns, and patterns such as codependency or difficulty with commitment. Communication problems, anger, and isolation are common topics she addresses. Over her career she has supported people facing eating and food-related issues, domestic violence, divorce and separation, and obsessive or compulsive behaviors.
She also offers guidance for caregivers handling ongoing stress and for fathers navigating parenting challenges. Therapy with Susan typically uses approachable language and practical exercises. She encourages small, testable changes and checks progress together.
Her style is steady and supportive, aimed at helping people build skills that fit their daily lives.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Susan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Online support
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building day-to-day skills. One common approach helps people identify and test beliefs that increase worry or low mood, then practice new ways of thinking and responding to stress. This method is useful for anxiety, depression, and obsessive concerns.Another practical approach emphasizes behavioral change through small, structured steps. It breaks larger goals into manageable tasks, such as improving sleep, increasing activity, or practicing communication skills. This kind of work helps with motivation, mood disorders, addictions, and caregiver stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Sessions are collaborative, and adjustments are made based on what is helpful over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Susan commonly address?
Susan helps with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders such as bipolar. She also works on relationship strains, self-esteem, career concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and parenting issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and respectful. Sessions focus on clear goals, straightforward conversation, and steps to try between meetings.
What kind of experience does she bring?
She has 30 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and life stages. That background informs her practical, steady way of working with clients.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New Jersey, offering services tied to that jurisdiction.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to start therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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