Susan Trefts, LCSW, LICSW

Susan Trefts is a licensed clinical social worker with 21 years of professional experience, serving clients in Oregon and Washington. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials - clinical social work licenses that reflect advanced training in therapeutic practice - and brings a calm, strengths-focused approach to helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and compassion fatigue. She also works with concerns related to self-esteem, motivation, body image, communication, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and women's issues.

Susan believes that each person is the expert on their own life and that existing strengths are central to healing and growth. She supports clients in building confidence, developing coping skills, and reclaiming a more fulfilling life, honoring the courage it takes to reach out for help. Her practice emphasizes empathy, practical tools, and collaboration, with the aim of guiding people through difficult transitions and toward clearer, more sustainable ways of managing emotional challenges.

Whether addressing immediate symptoms or exploring deeper patterns, Susan offers steady, compassionate support designed to meet clients where they are and help them move toward the goals that matter most.