Meet Susie Rokosch, LCSW

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a powerful tool for addressing and healing from past traumatic experiences or distressing memories. EMDR is particularly effective for those dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), trauma-related symptoms, anxiety, and depression. We can integrate EMDR with other therapeutic modalities to create a comprehensive and personalized treatment plan.

My approach is grounded in mind-body techniques, emphasizing the importance of cultivating a deeper mind-body connection. Trauma can significantly disrupt the central nervous system, and understanding how to recognize and re-regulate your unique trauma responses is crucial in the therapeutic journey. By addressing these disruptions, we can enhance your overall emotional resilience and support effective trauma recovery.

As adults, our relationships can be deeply influenced by early attachment wounds. If you're experiencing challenges in maintaining healthy relationships, we can explore these issues through the lens of attachment theory to better understand your attachment style and relational patterns. This approach can help you develop greater stability and security in your key relationships. Additionally, we can focus on enhancing your communication skills and boundary setting to foster more fulfilling and balanced connections.

To me, mindfulness is an expansive concept that encompasses a range of practices designed to address the challenges of our fast-paced, overstimulated world. Many of us experience anxiety, exhaustion, and cognitive overload. Learning and integrating mindfulness-based practices can help you slow down, recharge, and "practice the pause." These techniques are essential for breaking cycles of overthinking, rumination, and anxious thought patterns, allowing for greater mental clarity and emotional balance.

Having personally experienced the profound effects of trauma, I approach our work together with a trauma-informed perspective. No matter where you are in your healing journey, you will be met with empathy, compassion, and respect. My goal is to create a supportive environment that acknowledges your unique experiences and fosters trust and safety throughout the therapeutic process.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with a component of mindfulness built in can be a helpful tool to foster new awareness and identification of old belief patterns that are no longer helpful. Once identified, we can work on both validating where these belief systems come from and ultimately begin to change them to a new system of beliefs that is more helpful and supportive.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a wonderful modality that allows us to examine all the “parts” within ourselves and recognize that we ultimately have ‘no bad parts.’ Through this lens, unhealthy belief patterns and behaviors can be understood as Protectors that were once there to help us survive traumatic experiences. Layering in mindfulness, validating these parts first can help us gain better access to the “Self,” which will always point us in the direction of our best selves.

While not traditional psychotherapy, for those who have worked with or are planning to work with plant-based medicines as part of their journey, Psychedelic Integration Coaching can be a supportive tool to help integrate and/ or make sense of confusing or challenging experiences with these medicines.