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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. For couples, she offers a structured 12-session relationship-strengthening approach. She supports partners seeking improved communication, conflict resolution, trust rebuilding, marriage preparation or separation, effective co-parenting, reconnection after emotional distance, or early divorce navigation. Couples receive targeted exercises, relationship assessments, and customized homework supporting healthier communication and emotional regulation. 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
The first session is an intake appointment lasting 30–45 minutes. Please fill out the Safety plan, Consents, Measurement Survey, and Intake before our first session. During this time, an assessment and treatment plan are completed, current concerns are reviewed, and clear goals are established to guide the work moving forward. Ongoing Sessions Subsequent sessions are structured, proactive, and goal-focused. Weekly appointments are recommended, with reflective assignments used to support insight and steady progress in-between sessions. Journaling and self-reflection are central to the process, helping clients better understand their thoughts, emotions, and patterns. Regular check-ins and open communication are essential, and therapy is approached as a collaborative team effort. Session Fees (Cash Pay) Individual sessions: $100 for 53 minutes Couples sessions: $150 for 53 minutes Intake session (individual or couples): $100 for 30–45 minutes Availability Weekly sessions are available on Thursdays and Fridays from 7 am to 1 pm and Saturday mornings from 7 am to 10 am. Session Format & Expectations All sessions are conducted as audio-only calls through a secure platform. Audio sessions often allow clients to feel more relaxed and focused without the pressure of being on camera and work well for those with busy schedules, children at home, or limited internet access. Sessions may be conducted from a parked vehicle in a private location but not while driving or running errands or out of state. Clients are expected to engage actively in the process, complete agreed-upon exercises, and communicate openly to support effective and focused progress.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
This practice stands out for delivering fast, focused, and practical results. The therapeutic style is straightforward, grounded, and compassionate, helping clients feel understood while moving them toward meaningful change without wasted time. The approach blends evidence-based therapy, neuroscience, and holistic techniques to help clients calm their nervous system, break toxic patterns, and improve emotional stability. Sessions are structured, goal-oriented, and designed to create lasting change—not just temporary relief. Specialties include trauma recovery, inner-child and parts work, emotional regulation, and improving communication in relationships. Individuals and couples receive clear tools, direct feedback, and personalized strategies that help them respond more confidently in daily life. Clients often choose this practice for its ability to: Identify patterns quickly Offer clear guidance instead of vague reflection Create a safe space without enabling unhealthy dynamics Provide structured exercises that work beyond the session Support real progress in a shorter amount of time Areas of support include grief, heartbreak, anxiety, toxic family dynamics, narcissistic abuse, and major life transitions. Couples work emphasizes empathy, regulation skills, and practical strategies that strengthen connection. Important note: This practice does not treat addiction or substance-use disorders and does not conduct couples therapy for active abusive relationships. The focus is on supporting survivors who are ready to rebuild safety, self-worth, and resilience.
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 and can handle constructive feedback. Many have tried traditional therapy that felt too surface-level and are now seeking meaningful change, honest feedback, and a more immersive healing process. They are willing to engage in reflective writing, breathwork, somatic exercises, and other holistic tools that help release emotional blocks and build clarity. Even if these approaches are new to them, they are open to exploring what truly supports their healing.
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.