LCSW, 1 years of experience
My name is Susana Mejia Vargas. I am a fully bilingual (English and Spanish) Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and my main focus is to help clients with unresolved trauma. Depending on how you are affected, trauma can cause difficulties in your daily life, such as hopelessness, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, constant irritability, and stress. I help my clients better understand the challenging aspects of traumatic events that are affecting their emotional and mental health. I will make clinical judgments about how to proceed in certain situations, but you are an expert on yourself, even if you don't feel that way.
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.
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.
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.
2 ratings with written reviews
July 1, 2025
I’m incredibly grateful to have found Susana Mejia-Vargas. She is a truly exceptional therapist—solution-oriented, thoughtful, and always focused on helping me move forward. Her approach is challenging in the best way: she pushes me to reflect deeply, while still making me feel supported and understood. Each session brings clarity and growth. I highly recommend her to anyone who is ready to work on themselves and make real progress
May 29, 2025
From the beginning, the atmosphere was warm and welcoming. Susana created a safe space where I felt comfortable sharing personal thoughts without fear of judgment. What stood out most was her ability to listen actively and reflect back what I was saying in a way that helped me see things more clearly. We explored some patterns in my thinking that I hadn’t recognized before, and I appreciated how she offered gentle guidance rather than pushing solutions.
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.
Improve couple’s functioning, developing solutions together by validating both of their feelings and learning assertive communications
Acknowledging the need to understand past trauma, having a complete picture of the client’s life to provide effective counseling
Educating clients about mental health conditions, including symptoms, treatment and expected outcomes
Focus on clients strengths, their existing resources, qualities, resilience and their own ability to improve quality of life