Susana Mejia-Vargas

Susana Mejia-Vargas is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with four years of clinical experience. She is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and focuses on unresolved trauma, stress, anxiety, grief, family concerns, and issues with self-esteem. She explains that trauma can show up as hopelessness, sleep problems, constant irritability, anxiety, or difficulty functioning day to day. She helps people make sense of how past events continue to affect their emotions and behavior. She also brings experience supporting adoptees and adoptive families facing grief, attachment questions, identity, cultural issues, and trauma. Susana uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in sessions. She mentions psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior approaches, narrative work, and motivational methods as tools she draws on. In practical terms this means she talks with clients about what is happening in their minds and bodies, and uses techniques to reduce distress and improve coping. Her style emphasizes listening and building rapport so people can speak honestly about difficult feelings. She makes clinical judgments about how to proceed while reminding clients they are the expert on their own experience. This balance guides how she plans sessions and next steps. Susana describes the first steps as understanding current symptoms and then working together to build resilience, improve communication, manage stress, and explore life purpose. She invites people to be vulnerable in order to better identify needs and move toward meaningful change.

How Susana uses evidence-based approaches online

Susana draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to help people identify and change thoughts and behaviors that keep them stuck. CBT techniques can be practical for anxiety, stress, and managing symptoms that follow trauma.

She also uses narrative approaches that invite people to tell and reframe their personal stories. Narrative techniques help when identity, cultural issues, or adoption-related questions make it hard to feel settled. Motivational methods are used to build readiness for change and support taking small steps toward goals, which can be useful when someone feels ambivalent about next moves.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Susana says she will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single technique. That collaborative process guides how sessions are structured and which skills are practiced.

Confirm the session formats Susana currently offers before booking so you know how she conducts sessions. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so sessions are more accessible around work or caregiving. These practical benefits help people keep therapy consistent while they address stress, trauma, and questions about life purpose.