Dr. Susan Schaming, LPC
New Jersey · 38 years in practice
Dr. Susan Schaming is a licensed professional counselor with 38 years of experience who helps people face relationship struggles, parenting challenges, depression, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LPC, New Jersey
- 37PC01156800 · expires November 2026
- LPC, Pennsylvania
- PC001460 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1003369596 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 38
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Susan
Dr. Susan Schaming is a licensed professional counselor with 38 years of experience who helps people face relationship struggles, parenting challenges, depression, and major life changes. She also offers coaching for professional and executive concerns.
Her work often addresses issues such as abandonment, blended family matters, caregiver stress, addiction, and forgiveness. She draws on practical therapy methods and a conversational style. Sessions focus on clarifying what matters to the client, identifying strengths, and setting small, doable steps.
Background and approach
Homework is commonly given after the first meeting to get change started right away. Susan has practiced in schools, universities, hospitals, and mental health settings. That variety shaped her ability to shift approaches to fit a person’s real life and schedule.
She maintains licensure as an LPC and holds credentials in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive and behavioral tools. She also incorporates existential and narrative ideas to help people find meaning and reshape their life stories.
Dialectical methods may be used when regulating intense emotions is a priority. Sessions are practical and plainspoken. People can expect clear goals, concrete strategies, and compassionate listening.
The aim is to help someone move forward, whether coping with grief, managing parenting stress, or recovering from relationship pain. She speaks English and provides services from New Jersey. Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling built around the client’s needs.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Susan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Susan names
- Existential Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How approach and format meet your needs online
Existential therapy helps people look at meaning, choice, and purpose when life feels empty or overwhelming. It can be useful for coping with grief, big transitions, and questions about direction. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and supporting the person as the expert on their own life, creating space to name goals and strengths.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new actions to change mood and behavior. It often suits concerns like depression, anxiety, and patterns that keep repeating in relationships. These approaches can be blended so the work matches what a person needs in the moment rather than following one fixed plan.
Finding the right mix is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods based on the client's goals, preferences, and what shows progress. That means experimenting, checking in, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is good for more in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can provide quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She supports people with relationship problems, parenting struggles, depression, and coping with life transitions. Other focuses include addiction, caregiver stress, and family-of-origin issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is conversational and goal-oriented, mixing active listening with practical tasks. Clients often leave sessions with small steps to try between appointments.
How much experience does she have?
She has 38 years of professional experience working in schools, universities, hospitals, and mental health settings.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LPC with licensure in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and practices from New Jersey.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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