Susanne Loar, LCSW

Licensed in North Carolina · 15 years in practice

Susanne Loar is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience.

License and registration

LCSW, North Carolina: C010242 · expires July 2026
NPI: 1790188506 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 15
Languages: English

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About Susanne

Susanne Loar is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and focuses on helping people find more confidence, balance, and meaning in everyday life. Susanne uses clear, person-centered conversation to help people sort through painful patterns and build healthier habits.

She combines practical skills and gentle exploration. Sessions look at how behaviors once helped a person cope, and then gather small, workable steps to move forward.

Background and approach

Susanne draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused work to guide that process. Susanne has deep experience with addictive disorders and with the ripple effects addiction can have on relationships and family life.

She can help a person plan new ways of living without substances or problematic behaviors, and she can talk through how a partner's or child's addiction might be affecting someone's wellbeing. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient substance use programs, public mental health agencies, hospital inpatient mental health, and a neonatal intensive care unit.

She also supervises associate social workers and substance use specialists, bringing practical knowledge from those roles into her sessions. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person. Susanne listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people practice new skills between meetings.

The aim is steady, realistic change people can fit into daily life.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Susanne lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Depression
LGBT
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Attachment issues
Codependency
Dissociation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Isolation / loneliness
Self-harm
Somatization

Approaches Susanne names

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Online support

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values, then taking committed action toward what matters. It helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by building willingness to experience difficult feelings while acting in line with goals. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection patterns and trust. It helps people understand closeness, boundaries, and how to repair connection in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with practical skills for coping and mood management. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood changes, and sleep issues.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person’s concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan over time so it fits the person’s life.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and live chat or text-based messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and practice new skills consistently.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and family issues, grief, trauma, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, and related concerns.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is person-centered and collaborative, mixing practical skills with gentle exploration to help people change habits and make small, steady gains.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 15 years of clinical experience across inpatient and outpatient settings, hospitals, substance use programs, and neonatal intensive care work.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in North Carolina and practices from that state.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.

What session formats does she offer?

She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for remote work.

How does payment and cost work?

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