Susan Gerber

Susan Gerber is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 40 years of experience in New Mexico. She helps people who are struggling with anger, stress, anxiety, and depression. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, grief, and issues with self-esteem and motivation.

She focuses on creating a calm, open space where people can speak honestly about hard feelings. Sessions aim to reduce reactivity and build clearer ways to express needs. The tone is respectful and nonjudgmental, and the work moves at the client's pace.

Her background includes decades of practice with life transitions, trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, and the fallout from infidelity or jealousy. That experience informs practical strategies for coping during stressful times and for rebuilding trust in relationships when needed.

Susan emphasizes straightforward tools people can use between meetings, such as breathing and grounding steps, thought tracking, and planning small behavior changes. She helps people spot patterns that increase anger or anxiety and tries to replace them with more helpful responses.

Starting therapy is framed as a gradual process. Susan respects the courage it takes to begin and partners with each person to set clear, realistic goals. Her approach is steady and goal-oriented, aimed at helping people feel more in control of their reactions and choices.

Approaches that help manage anger and stress

Many people find benefit from evidence-based techniques that target thoughts and behaviors that fuel anger. One common method focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them against real situations to reduce intense reactions. This helps people slow down and choose responses more deliberately.

Another helpful approach emphasizes small behavior changes and coping skills. That can include brief breathing or grounding steps, planning how to approach difficult conversations, and practicing new ways to ask for needs. These steps are practical and can reduce escalation in heated moments.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with the client to pick methods that match the person's goals, daily life, and comfort level. They adjust techniques over time based on what helps most.

Confirm the session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific online options. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also let someone choose a quieter time of day, limit screen use during a meeting, or focus on spoken conversation rather than video depending on what the therapist offers.