Suzanne Knapp

Suzanne Knapp is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over a decade of experience in social work and psychotherapy. She has worked in foster care, group residences, domestic violence shelters, schools, assisted living, outpatient clinics, and private practice. Suzanne focuses on helping people build self-esteem, clarify purpose, and grow through life’s transitions.

Her background includes roles as a social worker, psychotherapist, social work supervisor, and life coach. She brings practical experience with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar, grief, and relationship and intimacy issues. She also addresses career questions, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Suzanne’s style is eclectic, engaging, and interactive. She emphasizes working together to set personal and professional goals based on each person’s interests and strengths. She favors approaches that are human-centered and solution-focused rather than following what others expect.

In sessions she commonly draws on Client-Centered methods, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy along with Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy. Those approaches guide practical steps, thought work, and awareness skills that people can use between sessions. She aims to help people find clearer direction and steadier coping.

Suzanne practices in New Mexico and holds LCSW credentials in New York and New Mexico. Sessions are conducted in English. To begin, readers should use the Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to schedule according to therapist availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Suzanne commonly uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people build awareness of thoughts and bodily sensations so they can respond instead of react. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, sleep problems, anxiety, and managing mood symptoms.

She also works from a Client-Centered perspective, which means sessions focus on the person’s goals and experiences. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and helping people clarify what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is another tool she uses to identify patterns of thinking that contribute to stress or low mood and to practice clearer thinking and behavior changes.

Choosing the right approach is often a collaborative process. Suzanne will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as work progresses.

Session format details are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow quieter check-ins when that is helpful, and reduce travel time. Licensed professionals adapt mindfulness, CBT, and client-centered techniques effectively to remote conversations, using guided practices, thought exercises, and goal-setting that carry over into daily life.