Approach To Service

Susan’s approach is built around three pillars: clarity, flexibility, and transformation.

Pattern-Breaking Work

Most people arrive doing more of the same—repeating the thoughts, behaviors, and expectations that fuel anxiety, depression, or conflict. Susan identifies these loops and helps clients open up new ways of interpreting situations, solving problems, and responding to stress. By reducing emotional overload first, clients have the capacity to think creatively instead of reactively. This is where change begins.

Whole-Person, Whole-System Perspective

Because she is trained to work effectively with every age group and relational configuration, she can see how an individual’s struggles are shaped both internally and by the systems around them. She looks at the person sitting in front of her—but also at the dynamics, histories, and relationships influencing them. This allows her to craft tailored strategies rather than generic treatment plans.

Integrated Methods from Multiple Traditions

Her training weaves together intensive individual therapy techniques, object-relations and psychodynamic principles, advanced family-systems work, marital therapy, adult, and child/adolescent expertise. She built this path deliberately so she could help clients transition fluidly through life stages and relational challenges without sending them elsewhere. That breadth is unusual; few clinicians are trained deeply across all of these channels.

Flexible, Real-World Application

Susan adapts to what each person actually needs rather than forcing them into a rigid frame. That may mean meeting a resistant teenager in the car to get a foot in the door, guiding parents in crafting the right narrative for a child during separation, or giving clients targeted exercises between sessions to accelerate progress. The goal is always the same: shorten the time spent in therapy by increasing the impact of each step.

Tools for Independence

Her work is designed to move clients out of therapy, and not keep them in it. She focuses on communication skills, emotional resilience, perspective-shifting, and strategic thinking—tools clients can rely on long after the sessions end.