Individual Therapy

Go beyond understanding your patterns to changing how you experience yourself, your relationships, and your life.

You may be coming to therapy for the first time, or you may have spent years trying to understand yourself. Maybe you already know where some of your patterns come from, or maybe you’re just beginning to recognize them. You might notice yourself becoming anxious, shutting down, withdrawing, overthinking, people-pleasing, taking responsibility for everyone around you, or lashing out at others. And even when you understand what’s happening, you may find that when something hits the right nerve, your body reacts before you have a chance to think your way through it.

That’s because the patterns we develop in response to trauma, chronic stress, relationships, and difficult experiences aren’t simply thoughts or habits to overcome. They are often ways your mind and nervous system learned to protect you. Rather than treating those responses as something that is wrong with you, we’ll get curious about what they’re doing, where they come from, and what happens when you begin to relate to them differently.

Our work may include talking and making meaning, but we won’t stop there. Depending on what you need, we may use EMDR, somatic and nervous-system work, attachment-focused therapy, mindfulness, and other mind-body approaches to work with what you experience - not just what you understand. The goal isn’t to never feel anxious, activated, hurt, or overwhelmed again. It’s to have more choice in how you respond, greater capacity to stay connected to yourself, and more freedom from patterns that once protected you but no longer need to run the show.

Specialities

Trauma and PTSD

Trauma can continue to shape the way you feel, relate, and respond long after the experience itself has passed. We’ll work with both the story of what happened and the ways your mind and body learned to survive it.

Anxiety & Chronic Stress

When your nervous system has learned to stay alert, it can be difficult to simply “relax” or think your way out of anxiety. We’ll explore what keeps your system working so hard and help create greater capacity for safety, flexibility, and ease.

Relationships & Attachment

The ways we learned to connect, protect ourselves, caretake, withdraw, or seek reassurance often show up most strongly in our closest relationships. Therapy can help you understand these patterns without judging them - and begin to create different ways of relating to yourself and others.

Life Transitions and Identity

Sometimes nothing is necessarily “wrong,” but the way you’ve been living no longer fits. Therapy can offer space to explore change, loss, relationships, identity, meaning, and the question of what you actually want your life to look like now.

Types of Therapy

EMDR

A trauma-processing approach that can help the brain and body integrate experiences that continue to feel unresolved or present.

Somatic & Nervous System-Informed Therapy

Bringing attention to sensations, impulses, and nervous-system responses so therapy includes what your body is communicating - not only the story your mind can tell.

Parts & Attachment Work

Exploring the protective parts, relational patterns, and adaptations you developed over time with curiosity rather than judgement.

Mindfulness & Mind-Body Practices

Building the capacity to notice thoughts, emotions, and body sensations with greater awareness and less urgency to immediately change or escape them.

Yoga Therapy & Breathwork

When appropriate and of interest to you, elements of therapeutic yoga, movement, breath, and embodied practices can be integrated into our work to support greater connection with your body.

Ready to Begin?

You don’t need to have everything figured out before reaching out. You may know exactly what you want to work on, or you may simply know that something isn’t working anymore. We can begin there.

 Cash Pay & Sliding Scale Available

What Client’s Are Saying…

  • Susie never makes me feel weird for any feelings I share. She normalizes and validates my experiences and has given me so many tools to use to help me manage and regulate my emotions and responses. I feel like we are building each week vs. re-starting every session.

    - Anonymous

  • I haven't met with Susie in a few months yet she has reached out to check in with me. This is so appreciated! Just knowing she has checked in has been huge for me. It's very comforting to know someone is concerned about me.

    - Anonymous

  • I started practicing box breathing at night, and I am now able to really quiet my mind and get to sleep. This practice is now part of my evening routine, and I even look forward to it. I started turning the TV off while I’m breathing because I feel like it really helps me get even more present and relaxed

    - Ray

  • Susie is a driven, hardworking individual who leads with compassion, empathy and determination. Her genuine desire to be the best version of herself is admirable and inspiring and she has honed the skills of both giving and receiving feedback. Susie is a strong communicator and an excellent listener. I recall many times having had mindful, goal-oriented conversations with Susie that resulted in personal connection and professional growth. Susie is the person you want on your team, every time, without question

    - Bre