Susan Banco, LCSW, LCSW-R

Susan Banco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, LCSW-R) practicing in New York. She brings 30 years of clinical experience and a background in community settings, schools, and day programs. Susan uses a warm, conversational style to help people talk through current struggles and plan practical steps forward.

She spent much of her career counseling individuals and leading groups, and she has trained other social workers. Her approach mixes listening with active problem-solving so people leave sessions with concrete options to try. Sessions often focus on relationship strain, parenting pressures, stress and anxiety, and life transitions like divorce or career change.

Susan also supports people dealing with substance-related issues, grief, eating and intimacy-related concerns, anger, and challenges with self-esteem. Additional areas she addresses include commitment issues, communication problems, control issues, infidelity, jealousy, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She offers coaching for employment and career questions alongside clinical work.

Her methods draw on client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, narrative work, and solution-focused techniques. In practice this means helping people reframe stories about themselves, set small achievable goals, and try out new behaviors between sessions.

People who prefer a conversational, practical therapist may find her approach useful. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments based on the therapist's availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How her approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client’s perspective. The therapist reflects back what she hears and helps people make sense of their feelings, which can be useful for relationship strain, parenting concerns, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, and coping with life changes. Motivational Interviewing supports people who are feeling stuck about change by helping them find their own reasons to move forward, useful for addictions and lifestyle shifts.

Finding the best fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which approaches to emphasize and they can adjust the plan as progress is made.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten commutes, and allow for focused check-ins between other obligations. It also makes it possible to work on thought patterns, relationship communication, and practical skill-building from wherever you are able to connect.