Susan Bump

Susan Bump is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and coping with life changes. Susan aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for someone who is worried about seeking help.

Susan creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through hard feelings. Sessions are meant to be a place to name what feels wrong and to try small changes that make daily life easier. She listens for patterns that come from early relationships and from the body’s responses to stress.

Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with somatic work. That means she pays attention to how close relationships shape emotional needs, and also to how sensations in the body hold stress or trauma. Together these ways of working can help people feel more grounded and better able to face difficult moments.

Susan has worked with issues such as abandonment worries, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, family of origin concerns, and midlife changes. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Her goal is to help clients build practical coping skills and to reconnect with what matters to them.

If you want to explore whether her style is a fit, she encourages taking the first small step and reaching out to start the process.

Attachment and Somatic Work Adapted for Online Care

Attachment-based work pays attention to how early and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. It helps people recognize patterns in how they connect, argue, or withdraw, and then try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.

Somatic therapy focuses on the body's signals - breath, tension, and movement - as clues to how stress and trauma are stored. Simple body-centered practices can support regulation, reduce reactivity, and make it easier to stay present during emotional conversations.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt attachment and somatic techniques to those needs. Clients help shape the plan and try strategies that fit their life.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can attend from wherever they are located in California. Many people find that talking through relationship patterns and practicing gentle body awareness exercises translates well to remote sessions when the approach is adjusted for each person's pace and comfort.