Karen Sussan (she/her/hers)

I am highly qualified to join you at the crossroads of the spiritual, religious, and psychotherapeutic realms. I respect faith journeys and I am trained to help with existential issues and life meaning. The discipline is not licensable in many states, including New York, so many conscientious practitioners, myself included, join organizations that provide standards for practice and ethical conduct. Such codes of conduct include non-proselytizing. Many secular clients also this work healing.

When it comes to anxiety, research shows psychotherapy can be an effective option. In psychotherapy, I will join you to uncover underlying causes of your worries and fears. Together, we can focus on learning how to relax, look at situations in a new, less frightening way, and improve coping mechanisms and problem-solving skills. Like anxiety, depression can be addressed therapy. We can sort out environmental, biological, and circumstantial factors that you can change.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy helps when you feel stuck. It addresses rational, conscious, and unconscious motives that contribute to personal problems. We collaborate to support rational, conscious motives in sync with your goals, while confronting motives incompatible with them. You can discover and confront unproductive motives and patterns rooted in the past. As these patterns become better understood, ways for breaking free of them become clearer. Then, you can explore and try alternatives.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy helps when you feel stuck. It addresses rational, conscious, and unconscious motives that contribute to personal problems. We collaborate to support rational, conscious motives in sync with your goals, while confronting motives incompatible with them. You can discover and confront unproductive motives and patterns rooted in the past. As these patterns become better understood, ways for breaking free of them become clearer. Then, you can explore and try alternatives.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy helps when you feel stuck. It addresses rational, conscious, and unconscious motives that contribute to personal problems. We collaborate to support rational, conscious motives in sync with your goals, while confronting motives incompatible with them. You can discover and confront unproductive motives and patterns rooted in the past. As these patterns become better understood, ways for breaking free of them become clearer. Then, you can explore and try alternatives.

I work with people impacted by trauma--single episode and complex, especially those rooted in childhood. I use EMDR and parts work like IFS to address complex grief, anxieties, relational and self issues. Sometimes, these experiences manifest in health conditions or pain. Some of my clients had not consider themselves as having been traumatized, believing that trauma is only "big T" events , when, in fact, neglect and attachment issues from birth or childhood are considered complex trauma.

Sometimes, I use psychodynamic therapy to help clients get unstuck. Through collaborative effort, you can discover and confront irrational, unproductive motive and patterns rooted in the past. As these aspects of your problems become better understood, ways of breaking free of them become clearer. We can then reinforce your conscious motives in sync with your goals.

Often, clients and I discover early attachment and childhood trauma at the root of their present issues. We focus present coping capacity and an expansion of internal resources, including mindfulness practices, EMDR-based resourcing, imaginal nurturing, and parts work such as IFS and others. If a client is eligible and interested, EMDR can be very effective to reduce symptoms, triggers and internal roadblocks to present day life. I am certified EMDR therapist.

EMDR is an evidence-based approach. It addresses trauma, single incident and complex as well as many other mental health conditions. I'm an EMDR certified psychotherapist with EMDRIA. I help people with trauma, attachment trauma from preverbal childhood on, complex grief, and medical pain, chronic conditions, as well as pregnancy and post-partum depression.