LCSW, 32 years of experience
Frequently rebooked
Are you feeling overwhelmed by persistent self-doubt or caught in patterns of behavior that no longer serve you? Do you find yourself struggling to connect past experiences with your current challenges, leaving you feeling stuck or unfulfilled? I commend you for taking this courageous step toward enhancing your mental well-being. Embarking on therapy can evoke a mix of emotions—empowerment, uncertainty, even apprehension—and that's perfectly natural. With years of experience, I offer a grounded, compassionate approach to help you navigate life’s challenges.
In our initial sessions, we'll discuss what has motivated you to seek therapy at this time, the challenges you're experiencing and their duration, as well as your goals and expectations for treatment. I'll also share my therapeutic approach to ensure it aligns with your needs. This collaborative process helps us uncover what's most important to you and establishes a clear understanding of your goals.
I approach therapy with a deep commitment to helping clients connect their past experiences—such as family dynamics, early relationships, or significant events—to their present lives. By addressing the roots of self-doubt, ill-suited behaviors, and self-sabotage, I'll guide you toward deeper self-awareness and a more balanced, satisfying life. Using a relational and collaborative approach, I emphasize trust and connection in our sessions, often incorporating humor to foster perspective and self-compassion. Humor helps make difficult emotions more approachable and promotes resilience.
I work best with individuals who feel they are carrying the weight of past experiences, whether it's the echoes of a difficult childhood, the strain of unresolved trauma, or the exhaustion that comes from constantly pushing forward while feeling stuck inside. Many of my clients are high-functioning on the outside but privately struggle with feelings of isolation, uncertainty, or emotional numbness. Others find themselves repeating patterns in relationships or battling an inner critic that never seems to quiet down. If you’ve been navigating life with a sense of heaviness or disconnection, I’m here to help you process, heal, and build a path toward a life that feels more like your own.
Experience and training in psychodynamic therapy, I have found that its strength lies in helping clients uncover unconscious patterns shaped by their early experiences, which often influence their present emotions, relationships, and behaviors. Over the years I have refined my approach to be both deeply insightful and adaptable, ensuring that cultural sensitivities and individual differences are always explored, considered and respected. This means paying attention to how cultural values experiences and identity shape each persons inner world. By fostering a safe and collaborative space, I help clients develop greater self-awareness and resolve internal conflicts, leading to meaningful, lasting change in their lives.
CBT is used to assist individuals identify and change negative thought patterns that impact their emotions and behaviors. By working together, we uncover how certain beliefs or habits may be holding you back and practice new ways of thinking that lead to healthier reactions and choices. CBT is practical and focused, giving you tools to handle challenge is in your daily life while creating lasting positive change. It’s a collaborative approach tailored to your unique experiences, values, and goals, ensuring it fits your needs.
Relational therapy will focus on relationship patterns and emphasizes the importance of relations hips in shaping a persons emotional well-being and sense of self. It explores how past and present relationships influence a persons thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, aiming to improved the quality of their interpersonal connections and their relationship with themselves. The focus is on relationships central to the individual, the therapeutic relationship, where it is used to collaborate and explore relational patterns. Relational therapy also takes into strong consideration cultural and social contexts. We will uncover patterns, work through emotional difficulties, and enhance awareness and communication and how this impacts relationships.
2 ratings with written reviews
March 7, 2025
Suzanne is an amazing therapist and I am beyond grateful to have her as my therapist!!! She has helped me in so many ways and in just a short amount of time! I feel very blessed to have her on my journey of self discovery!
March 5, 2025
Great session! Suzanne is a wonderful