A Space to Heal and Thrive

Therapy for adults who have experienced any significant negative life event or incident that impacts how they feel about themselves or the world around them.

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“It isn’t in my past, it is in my everyday”

- Helen Wilson

The aftermath of abuse, relational trauma or other painful life experiences is like a hidden life-bruise that continues to hurt long after the experiences ended. Often individuals initially seek out help for symptoms of anxiety, depression, grief, emotional overwhelm, and/or reliving a traumatic or painful experience. Most commonly, I see individuals in my office who have unresolved trauma or painful experiences from childhood, teen years or as an adult. Many times these experiences show up as unhelpful patterns in relationships, reactions, thoughts, behaviors, emotions and feelings about your Self or in settings such as college, work, home or in relationships.

Meet Suzanne

Originally from the Houston/Gulf Coast area, I graduated magna cum laude from University of Houston at Clear Lake and then began working in Houston as a paralegal. In 2010, I went through a transformative experience that lead me to obtaining my MSW at University of Texas at Arlington. My focus is on how negative experiences and traumatic events in our childhoods lead to personal and interpersonal problems in adulthood.

Since becoming an LCSW, I have worked as a therapist in many settings. I provided adult individual and group counseling at a local community mental agency, followed by working with teens at the same agency. My training includes IFS Level 1, EMDR, Relational EMDR, DBT skills, Somatic Experiencing, CCTP and Gottman Level 1.

In my free time, I love traveling, reading, spending time with family and playing the keyboard in a small band.

My Approach

My approach is to meet with you and tailor therapy to your unique needs including, but not limited to:

Learning about the brain, activation and instinctive defenses - fight, flight, freeze, submit and attachment cry;

Discovering Attachment wounding and adult relational attachment styles;
Understanding context of struggles in relation to traumatic or painful experiences;
Feeling how trauma shows up in your body somatically and techniques to feel into safety and safeness;
Use of creativity including externalizing, experiential activities and art;
Re-processing of traumatic memory using Internal Family Systems (IFS) or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Developing and aligning all parts of your personality, beliefs and values to reach your highest, truest expression of your Self.

As a clinical social worker, I respect all aspects of your identity including race, culture, religion, faith, spirituality, class, neurodivergence, gender and sexual identity.