Susan Essich-Kruse, LICSW, LISW-CP

Susan Essich-Kruse is a licensed social worker practicing in South Carolina with two decades of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, depression, and life transitions. She draws on client-centered, mindfulness, and systemic approaches to tailor care to each person and family, and she also brings experience addressing adoption and foster care concerns, aging and geriatric issues, blended family dynamics, communication problems, divorce and separation, feelings of emptiness, family conflict, mood disorders, and women's issues.

Susan holds the LICSW credential, a license that indicates independent clinical social work practice, and the LISW-CP credential, a clinical social work license. She is licensed in both Massachusetts and South Carolina, and she has built a practice grounded in the belief that each person is the expert on their own story and that existing strengths are central to overcoming life’s challenges.

Susan emphasizes collaboration and respect, guiding people to identify practical coping skills and make meaningful changes at their own pace. She recognizes that beginning therapy often requires courage and honors the decision to seek support, offering steady professional guidance throughout the process.