PhD, LMFTA, LMHCA, CCPS – Candidate, CSAT – Candidate, CPC
Suzanne is a trauma therapist whose clients include individuals (including children), couples, and families. She specializes in work with people who have been affected by sexual trauma, compulsive sexual behavior/sex addiction, intimate partner betrayal and the impact of sex addiction on the entire family system. She also has experience working with familial and other relational betrayals, childhood sexual abuse, grief and loss, parental estrangement, high-conflict couples, relationship problems, and family of origin issues.
As a family systems therapist, Suzanne understands that while relationships can bring joy, vitality, and meaning to our lives, they can sometimes bring us deep pain and confusion. She helps clients make sense of what they are experiencing and partners with them as they heal from losses, repair relational bonds, and move towards a reimagined future.
Suzanne prioritizes creating safe spaces for clients where they can feel understood, accepted, and heard. She approaches clients with respect, humility, and a deep appreciation for their strengths – including having the courage to reach out for help with their current circumstances. She brings deep professional and personal experiences to her work with clients, integrating her first career in academia with her own lived experiences with addiction in her family of origin, trauma, and recovery.
Suzanne believes that positive, transformative change and growth are possible. Working with Suzanne you can expect an open, non-shaming, collaborative stance; a clinical approach that is trauma informed and tailored to the client’s needs, a research-oriented practitioner who uses empirically tested tools and interventions, and a passionate advocate for equity and social justice.
Suzanne earned a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy with a specialization in Couple and Relationship Therapy from National University. She is a Certified Clinical Partner Specialist (CCPS) candidate and is receiving ongoing betrayal trauma training from The Association of Partners of Sex Addicts Trauma Specialists (APSATS). She is also a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) candidate and is receiving training from the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP). Heidi Kinsella is her supervisor. Suzanne is a Brainspotting Clinician and has received Level 1 & 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She is also a Certified Professional Coach (CPC).
At Fourth Dimension Counseling & Coaching we are experienced licensed therapists and counselors providing therapy services for people with a variety of emotional trauma experiences and conditions from betrayal trauma and betrayed partners to sex addiction, porn addiction, alcoholism, and drug addiction recovery or substance abuse to anxiety, depression, mens or womens issues as well as family, couple, relationship, partner and intimacy issues. Let us know how we can help, we’re here for you when you are ready to make a change.
Our therapists, counselors and coaches are licensed, certified and experienced in helping individuals and couple’s dealing with serious trauma and emotional challenges including:
Based out of Issaquah, Washington and we provide services throughout Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, California, Colorado, New York, Florida, North Carolina and Hawaii.
We currently provide our counseling and coaching services online through a secure private connection. We have licensed therapists and counselors in Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, California, Colorado, New York and Hawaii New York, Florida, North Carolina and Hawaii. We are experienced at providing quality, effective counseling, therapy and coaching solutions via remote video conferencing for individual, group and couple counseling and coaching.
At Fourth Dimension Counseling and Coaching we provide a variety of counseling and coaching options including individual and group therapy and counseling for both men and women as well as couples counseling and coaching services.
