Susan Wildemann, LCSW

Susan Wildemann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New York with 33 years of practice. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, and trauma. She also addresses issues such as caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, and communication problems.

Susan uses straightforward, interactive sessions that combine approaches to fit each persons needs. She often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness strategies and solution-focused steps are used to build short-term coping tools.

She has experience supporting people affected by post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and intellectual disability. Her work includes managing sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, career questions, and the challenges of bipolar disorder and compassion fatigue.

Sessions are practical and focused on problems people bring day to day. Expect discussion of patterns, short exercises, and reachable goals. Susan avoids labels that make people feel boxed in and prefers to look at concrete steps forward.

Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Boston University and decades of hands-on clinical work in New York. That experience guides how she chooses tools from psychodynamic, trauma-focused, and solution-focused approaches to match what each person needs.

To begin, she asks about current concerns and what goals feel most important. The first appointments tend to clarify immediate coping strategies and a simple plan for the next steps.

How her approaches translate to remote sessions