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IFS Therapy for Individuals & Couples
720.738.1500
720.738.1500
How I Can Help You
It's true we cannot change the past, but we can heal from the past in the present.
As a psychotherapist, I am a partner with my clients in searching out the meanings that make sense of their lives. I mostly work with trauma survivors as individuals and in relationships. Because the symptoms of trauma often go undiagnosed, many of my clients symptoms are diguised, unrecognized, or misunderstood. My work focuses on reliable and relational methods for recognizing a variety of emotional symptoms, core beliefs and behaviors, as well as PTSD and Complex PTSD, and extends a clinical lens to incorporate the 'hidden in plain sight' presenting symptoms: toxic shame and the somatic voice.
In my work I recognize the lingering effects of early attachment trauma, physical/emotional/sexual and spiritual abuse as the haunting remains of broken childhoods, at the hands of disordered, addicted, immature or mentally ill people - parents (parents' friends), step-parents, siblings, relatives, caretakers, teachers, neighbors, friends, coaches....
Im aware it can be hard to find the guidance and support you can trust. Safe people are difficult to find, when trust in the world and with other people, can feel broken, weakened or even non-existent.
I strive to provide a safe and soft holding space, both in my office and online, within which to support my clients to feel safe enough to untangle and process their story, event, situation, and their deeply held sorrows, fears, grief and suffering.
Although I trained in IFS later in my career, I consider myself an IFS therapist. Probably the most important reason is the enormously valuable healing experiences I have had, both on a personal and professional level, with IFS.
Through the IFS process, I became connected to my "protectors" and vulnerable inner parts, "exiles". This is where I experienced healing and deep internal changes that shifted my nervous system, my perspective, my life force, and where I actually felt something I’d never felt as viscerally before - an active state of inner love, courage, creativity, clarity, and connection to my own heart and the creation of a relationship to all parts of my Self.
Similarly, these kinds of active and visceral changes have occurred with my clients since I began using IFS. It's been so gratifying to facilitate and witness this kind of courageous healing. People can truly zoom in on themselves and do this work and learn the IFS Tools, to continue their healing work throughout their lives. I can personally attest to the dynamic power and grace of IFS to treat complex trauma and other mental health conditions, as well as, relational and marital conflicts.
This is the core of my work in my practice.
As a psychotherapist, I am a partner with my clients in searching out the meanings that make sense of their lives. I mostly work with trauma survivors as individuals and in relationships. Because the symptoms of trauma often go undiagnosed, many of my clients symptoms are diguised, unrecognized, or misunderstood. My work focuses on reliable and relational methods for recognizing a variety of emotional symptoms, core beliefs and behaviors, as well as PTSD and Complex PTSD, and extends a clinical lens to incorporate the 'hidden in plain sight' presenting symptoms: toxic shame and the somatic voice.
In my work I recognize the lingering effects of early attachment trauma, physical/emotional/sexual and spiritual abuse as the haunting remains of broken childhoods, at the hands of disordered, addicted, immature or mentally ill people - parents (parents' friends), step-parents, siblings, relatives, caretakers, teachers, neighbors, friends, coaches....
Im aware it can be hard to find the guidance and support you can trust. Safe people are difficult to find, when trust in the world and with other people, can feel broken, weakened or even non-existent.
I strive to provide a safe and soft holding space, both in my office and online, within which to support my clients to feel safe enough to untangle and process their story, event, situation, and their deeply held sorrows, fears, grief and suffering.
Although I trained in IFS later in my career, I consider myself an IFS therapist. Probably the most important reason is the enormously valuable healing experiences I have had, both on a personal and professional level, with IFS.
Through the IFS process, I became connected to my "protectors" and vulnerable inner parts, "exiles". This is where I experienced healing and deep internal changes that shifted my nervous system, my perspective, my life force, and where I actually felt something I’d never felt as viscerally before - an active state of inner love, courage, creativity, clarity, and connection to my own heart and the creation of a relationship to all parts of my Self.
Similarly, these kinds of active and visceral changes have occurred with my clients since I began using IFS. It's been so gratifying to facilitate and witness this kind of courageous healing. People can truly zoom in on themselves and do this work and learn the IFS Tools, to continue their healing work throughout their lives. I can personally attest to the dynamic power and grace of IFS to treat complex trauma and other mental health conditions, as well as, relational and marital conflicts.
This is the core of my work in my practice.
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Suzanne is thoughtful, skilled and has helped me delve into my core issues, supporting me all the way; she is spiritual and a joy. Suzanne helps heal, center and balance. My time spent with Suzanne will last a lifetime and I thank her for that. |
Very supportive therapist ! |
