Credentials:

Susan holds a license in Marriage and Family Therapy.  She graduated with an M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from  Fairfield University in 2001.  She has been in private practice for 5 years and currently works out of her home.  Along with her MFT training, Susan has also been trained in other techniques such as EMDR, NLP, and hypnosis which she often integrates into a typical psychotherapy session.  Susan works with individuals, couples, families and adolescents.  Issues she is most passionate about are sexual abuse, emotional abuse, domestic violence, self-destructive behaviors and teaching core competencies and self-reliance.  Prior to working as a therapist, Susan worked with the chronically mentally ill at the Valley Mental Health Center in Ansonia and as a crisis worker at Waterbury Hospital's Behavioral Health Crisis Center.  She was also trained to work with victims of domestic violence.

A Personal Note:

I have great passion for my work as a therapist.  I truly believe that we all have the potential for growth and have the right to live our lives to the fullest.  Many of us only live at a fraction of our potential for living fully and sometimes never even get past surviving day to day.  We all deserve to thrive in life, to wake up each day eager to experience what is in front of us for that day.  If you are living with anything less than that, then you owe it to yourself to explore the  resources available to you and begin your own journey of self-exploration and personal growth.

A personal perspective is that all of my clients are individuals who have the capacity to live the life that they want, they just need to better understand the dynamics, both internal and external, that surround them and how they effect their day to day.  Coming to know who you truly are as an individual will allow you to have better boundaries and therefore experience greater intimacy. Only when we know ourselves well enough can we then share ourselves fully with another.  Taking care of yourself is the greatest gift that you not only give to yourself but to all the people in your life.  A healthy, happy you will radiate health and happiness to everyone around you.  Once we become healthy individuals, the systems we live in will also begin to grow in a more healthy way as well. 

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