Dr. Susan Schaming, LPC

Dr. Susan Schaming is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor with 38 years of experience and practices in New Jersey. She works with adults who are dealing with relationship strain, parenting questions, depression, and major life changes. She also offers coaching for professional and executive concerns and addresses patterns such as codependency and communication problems.

Her clinical background spans schools, university settings, hospitals, and community mental health. That range means she is used to practical, problem-focused work alongside deeper personal exploration. She names Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy among the approaches she uses, but she does not limit sessions to any single method.

In sessions she treats the person as the expert on their own life story and helps them notice strengths to use when making changes. She often gives simple homework between meetings so clients can try new skills and see what works in their day-to-day life. Sessions include direct talk, skill practice, and reviewing what helped or didn’t.

Her work also attends to issues that come up around separation, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, substance concerns, and grief after loss. She helps people name patterns like control problems, commitment uncertainty, or feeling empty, and then plans steady steps to shift those patterns.

Susan brings decades of practice to a straightforward style. She offers clear suggestions, teaches coping tools, and supports people as they test new ways of relating and setting boundaries.

How her approaches work in online sessions