Susan Zapatha, LMHC

Florida · 28 years in practice

Susan Zapatha is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with nearly three decades of experience helping people facing relationship troubles, family conflict, trauma, grief, and life transitions.

License and registration

LMHC, Florida: MH7032 · expires March 2027
NPI: 1891829933 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 28
Languages: English

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About Susan

Susan Zapatha is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with nearly three decades of experience helping people facing relationship troubles, family conflict, trauma, grief, and life transitions. She aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable. Her style is warm and straightforward, focusing on building trust so clients can speak openly about difficult feelings.

She creates a calm space where thoughts and emotions can be named without judgment. Sessions focus on understanding how past experiences shape current patterns and on finding small, practical ways to respond differently.

Background and approach

Susan listens closely and helps people identify steps they can try between sessions. Susan uses approaches that emphasize emotional connection and the role of relationships in healing. She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) and Attachment-Based ideas to look at how bonds and attachment patterns affect feelings and behavior.

She also uses client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and build new skills. People come to her for many concerns, including anxiety, depression, parenting strain, addiction issues, burnout, and questions about identity and intimacy. She is experienced supporting those coping with chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, and trauma-related concerns.

Susan offers practical guidance alongside emotional support. She works with each person to set clear goals and to find methods that fit their daily life. Her approach is collaborative and focused on steady, realistic change.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Susan lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Parenting issues
Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
LGBT
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Depression
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Adoption and foster care
Attachment issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Avoidant personality
Blended family issues
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Control issues
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Dissociation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Infidelity
Jealousy
Life purpose
Men's issues
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Narcissism
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Personality disorders
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Traumatic brain injury
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Susan names

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Online support

Emotion and Attachment Focused Care Online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work with strong emotions in the moment. It is useful for processing grief, trauma reactions, and intimacy-related worries by clarifying what feelings drive actions and relationships.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence present behavior and closeness. It can help people understand patterns like avoidance, fear of abandonment, or difficulty trusting others and build healthier ways of relating.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences and will recommend approaches to try. This is a collaborative process and may combine emotion-focused, attachment, client-centered, or cognitive techniques as needed.

Online sessions can happen by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video suits in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can work for short check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of problems does she help with?

She helps people with relationship strain, family conflict, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and issues around intimacy and identity.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative. She focuses on building trust, naming emotions, and finding practical steps clients can try between sessions.

What is her background and experience?

She holds a Florida LMHC credential and brings 28 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and life challenges.

Where is she based and licensed?

She is licensed as a Mental Health Counselor in Florida and practices from that state.

Can sessions be offered in other languages or to people abroad?

Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are available?

She meets with people by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How are costs handled for sessions?

Costs vary with location and therapist availability and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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