Susana Mejia-Vargas
My name is Susana Mejia Vargas, and I am a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). My practice focuses on helping individuals and families understand and heal from unresolved trauma and the ways it can affect emotional well-being, relationships, and daily functioning.
One of my strengths is my background and vast experience with adoptees or adopting families that are facing specific challenges such as grief and loss, struggling with insecure attachment, identity or cultural issues, and trauma.
Trauma may present as anxiety, depression, chronic stress, irritability, sleep difficulties, or feelings of emotional overwhelm. My therapeutic approach is compassionate, collaborative, and focused on helping clients gain a deeper understanding of the patterns and experiences that may be affecting them today. I provide clinical guidance and practical tools while recognizing that each client is the expert on their own life. My goal is to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients feel heard, supported, and empowered to develop healthier coping strategies, strengthen relationships, and move toward greater emotional well-being.
First session
During the first session, I prioritize understanding what brings you into therapy. I examine your childhood experiences, significant life events, and traumas to connect the dots on how these underlying issues influence your present.
Strengths
One of the strengths I bring to my sessions is extensive experience working with adoptees and adoptive families, particularly around grief and loss, insecure attachment, identity and cultural concerns, and trauma. My therapeutic style is compassionate but also very direct. I believe meaningful progress often requires honest conversations, and I am comfortable helping clients identify difficult patterns, challenge perspectives that may no longer be serving them, and address issues that can be uncomfortable to discuss. I strive to balance this directness with empathy, respect, and a nonjudgmental approach so clients feel both supported and appropriately challenged in the therapeutic process.
Ideal clients
Everyone has a different healing process. First, I need to understand what is happening in your body and mind and, from there, navigate together the best journey to build resilience, cope with stress, rely on support groups, and build purpose in life. Fostering effective communication is one of my main strengths: active listening and building rapport.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use it with my clients to challenge their automatic and negative thoughts and improve the way they feel, mood swings, anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions.
Couples Counseling
Improve couple’s functioning, developing solutions together by validating both of their feelings and learning assertive communications
Trauma Informed Care
Acknowledging the need to understand past trauma, having a complete picture of the client’s life to provide effective counseling
Psychoeducation
Educating clients about mental health conditions, including symptoms, treatment and expected outcomes
Strength-Based
Focus on clients strengths, their existing resources, qualities, resilience and their own ability to improve quality of life
Location
Virtual sessions
In-person sessions155 Ocean Ln Dr, Key Biscayne, FL 33149, 800
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- FloridaLicense SW22889