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.
Other specialties
I identify as
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
6 ratings with written reviews
May 20, 2026
One of the best therapist I have had, she does not let you skip or ignore your feelings. I am a strong willed woman and having her gentle yet firm approach is so helpful for my mental health.
May 18, 2026
Susana worked w my husband and I because we were not communicating and had become verbally disrespectful and distant. She was very honest and broke down our behavior to a physiologic level like fight/flight & primitive responses and helped us become more emotionally aware of our emotions and how to control them and maintain and even build love and respect during conflict.
March 13, 2026
Susana is excellent. She takes the time to listen and give me a different perspective of things. She is open minded, intelligent, authentic, direct, warm, solution oriented and more.