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Need faster healing that addresses mind, body, and emotions? Susan Lane, MS, LMFT, is a highly experienced Marriage and Family Therapist and Spiritual Life Coach with over 25 years of experience helping individuals and couples heal, rebuild, and create lasting emotional change. Her work is grounded in strong clinical training and supported by mind–body neuroscience approaches that extend beyond traditional talk therapy. She helps clients gain insight while addressing emotional and physiological patterns that keep them stuck. She specializes in trauma, recovery from narcissistic abuse, painful family dynamics, heartbreak, grief, and the emotional toll of breakups and toxic relational patterns. Clients often seek her out when experiencing long-standing emotional pain, confusion after difficult relationships, or stress during major life transitions. Many have tried therapy before and now want deeper, more effective work that identifies patterns efficiently and offers practical tools for change. For clients seeking short-term or situational support, she also offers solution-focused therapy. This approach supports those facing critical decisions, navigating challenging situations, or needing focused space to process emotions, gain clarity, and determine next steps without long-term commitment. For individual trauma-focused work, she integrates trauma-informed therapy with somatic processing, EMDR, breathwork, meditative practices, and spiritual insight. Clients remain in control of pace, with emphasis on safety, nervous-system regulation, and integration. This work supports emotional regulation, anxiety management, stress reduction, and release of long-held emotional blocks. Clients choose her for clarity, depth, and a direct yet compassionate approach focused on meaningful, fast lasting progress.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
Your first appointment is the intake session, which lasts about 30–45 minutes. Please complete the Safety Plan, Consents, Measurement Survey, and Intake forms before we meet so the session can stay focused. During the intake, we review your concerns, discuss your history, complete the assessment and treatment plan, and establish clear therapeutic goals. Ongoing sessions are 53 minutes. They are structured, goal-focused, and designed to create steady progress. Weekly appointments and journaling assignments support insight, emotional regulation, and nervous-system stabilization. Journaling and self-reflection remain core parts of the process. The fee for intake sessions (individual or couples) is $100. Individual sessions are $100 for 53 minutes. Couples sessions are $150 for 53 minutes. Appointments are available Thursdays and Fridays from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, and Saturdays from 7:00 am to 10:00 am. Sessions are AUDIO-only on a secure link platform. This format helps clients stay focused without camera pressure. Sessions must be done in a private, parked location and cannot take place while driving, multitasking, or from outside the state. Active participation, openness, and completion of exercises are necessary for effective progress.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
This practice offers therapy that is fast, focused, and each session has an intention. The style is direct, grounded, and compassionate, helping clients feel understood while moving toward meaningful and lasting change. The work blends evidence-based therapy, neuroscience, and holistic techniques to calm the nervous system, interrupt toxic patterns, and strengthen emotional stability. Sessions are structured and goal-oriented rather than open-ended. Clients often choose this practice because patterns are identified quickly, guidance is clear, and the work extends beyond the session through structured exercises. The environment is safe and supportive without enabling unhealthy dynamics, and strategies are personalized so clients can apply them confidently in daily life. The primary focus includes trauma recovery, inner-child and parts work, emotional regulation, and improving communication and relationship patterns. The intention is to help clients build resilience, confidence, and long-term stability. This practice does not treat addiction, eating disorders, clinical depression, or substance-use disorders and does not offer couples therapy for relationships that are actively abusive. The focus is on supporting survivors who are ready to rebuild safety, self-worth, and emotional strength.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
The clients who do best in this practice are motivated, open-minded, and ready for deeper work. They are able to receive constructive feedback and are seeking more than surface-level therapy. Many have already tried traditional talk therapy and now want honest guidance, meaningful change, and an immersive healing process. They are willing to participate in reflective writing, breathwork, somatic exercises, and other holistic tools that support emotional release and self-awareness. Even if these approaches are new, they remain open to exploring what genuinely supports their healing. To ensure a strong therapeutic fit, this practice works best with clients who can engage collaboratively and maintain a solution-focused mindset. Because of the depth of the work, I may not be the best fit for individuals who are consistently critical, oppositional, or who struggle to engage constructively, as this style of therapy relies on openness, curiosity, and a willingness to grow.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Internal Family System is a wonderful way to understand patterns, reactions, attachments styles, and how they affect your current relationships and connections to others stemming from your family system. You learn about your patterns, fears, etc. and how to break cycles in any type of relationships (ie- friendships, partners, etc.) We all carry parts of ourselves shaped by our past—especially from childhood. Some of these parts learned how to protect us by shutting down, people-pleasing, getting angry, or becoming anxious. They were doing their best to help us survive. But those same patterns can keep us stuck in adulthood, repeating cycles in our relationships, feeling triggered, or struggling with self-worth. Inner Child Work helps you gently connect with the younger you who still holds those early hurts, unmet needs, or fears. Instead of ignoring or judging those parts, we learn to listen to them, nurture them, and give them what they never received. When we do that, healing begins—and so does real emotional freedom. Internal Family Systems (IFS) gives us a way to understand these different "parts" of you—your inner child, your protector, your critic, your people-pleaser—and helps them feel safe enough to step back. You learn to lead from your core self, the calm, wise part of you that knows how to heal, not just react. Why do this work? Because it helps you stop repeating the past. Because it teaches you to respond, not react. Because it gives you a deeper sense of peace, clarity, and connection—with yourself and others.
Solution Focused Brief Treatment
Working through issues effectively and quickly in achieving goals you wish you complete in therapy to better improve your life.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, goal-oriented psychotherapeutic treatment that helps individuals understand and change negative thought patterns and behaviors. It involves recognizing harmful thoughts, challenging their validity, and considering more realistic alternatives.
EMDR
Over the years, I have guided clients through EMDR to help them process traumatic experiences, unresolved grief, anxiety, and painful relationship patterns. I have seen firsthand how EMDR can rapidly reduce emotional distress connected to past events by allowing the brain to reprocess experiences that previously felt “stuck.” Clients often report feeling lighter, calmer, and more empowered after sessions, and many notice positive shifts in both their emotional state and physical body.
Narrative
Narrative therapy is a form of psychotherapy that centers on the stories individuals tell about their lives. It posits that these narratives shape one's identity and can influence thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
4 ratings with written reviews
December 6, 2025
I felt empowered and discovering that there is a healthy path forward.
October 24, 2025
She is awesome! She’s awesome to talk to, awesome to open up to and definitely has awesome ideas and solutions!! Strongly recommend her!!
July 11, 2025
Susan listens with empathy, reflects back with stories and examples and helps clarify the situation.