Susan Lipkin, LISW

Susan Lipkin is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work who has practiced as a licensed clinical social worker since 1988 and became independently licensed in 1999. Her work is rooted in a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening closely to what each person needs and building on the strategies that already help them.

She has seven years of private practice experience as a psychotherapist and has served in community mental health centers, psychiatric hospitals, and veterans’ services. She works with both men and women and has provided couples and family therapy across a range of situations.

Susan has extensive experience supporting survivors of sexual and physical abuse and people affected by diverse traumatic events, including military-related trauma. She has worked with women coping with domestic violence and the stressors that occur at different life stages, and she maintains a particular interest in infertility and the intense emotions that can accompany that experience. Her practice also includes work with older adults navigating issues related to aging.

Believing that no single approach fits everyone, she applies a flexible mix of techniques tailored to the individual. Her clinical toolbox includes client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, and solution-focused therapy, with the selection of methods guided by each client’s real-time needs. Over the course of her career she has helped people address depression, anxiety, difficult life choices, and relationship challenges, and she strives to provide a warm, nonjudgmental space in which clients can be themselves.