I’m Suzanne C. Hebert, LCSW, with 32 years of experience practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy informed by a warm, grounded sensibility. I deeply believe in the power of this collaborative approach to create meaningful, lasting change. Originally from New England and a Simmons University graduate, I now work in California, helping clients who are often told they “overthink” or are “too smart for their own good.” These gifted problem solvers come to me when they realize some challenges can’t be solved by reason alone.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Our work together will start with introductions, an in-depth exploration of your personal history, relationship dynamics, challenges, and aspirations. This collaborative “intake” process helps us uncover what’s most important to you and establishes a clear understanding of your goals. With this foundation in place, we will create a thoughtful plan and take the first steps toward meaningful change.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
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, maladaptive behaviors, and self-sabotage, I guide clients toward deeper self-awareness and a more balanced, satisfying life. Using a relational and collaborative approach, I emphasize trust and connection, often incorporating humor to foster perspective and self-compassion. Humor helps make difficult emotions more approachable and promotes resilience. I’m unafraid to explore painful histories with clients, helping them face challenges and uncover how old coping mechanisms, once useful, may now limit growth. Together, we reshape narratives and develop healthier ways of engaging with ones self and the world, grounded in empathy and the belief that even the most complex patterns can be untangled.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I work with clients from a wide range of backgrounds, but have particularly deep personal and professional experience working with academics and former academics (I am a academic myself, with a doctorate in business); with creatives and their partners; adolescents, and emerging adults.
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Psychodynamic
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.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
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
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.