Susan Thau, Ph. D., Clinical Psychologist

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"Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards."Soren Kierkegaard

Help for Troubled Relationships

How I Approach Therapy

  • A process of examining what has meaning in life.
  • A safe place to explore deeply meaningful personal issues.
  • A collaborative atmosphere which encourages mutual engagement.
  • An integrated approach affecting the body and its symptoms that are affecting emotional functioning.

What You Can Expect

I make a commitment to be actively present, responsive and engaged with the issues and concerns that you bring to treatment. Because of this commitment, we will be engaged in ongoing collaboration about your therapeutic process.

Individual and Couple Therapy

In both treatment modalities, I work from an attachment perspective.

I am particularly interested in how stress is manifested in our bodies and work with patients to help them to become more resilient...

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Individual and Couple Therapy

In both treatment modalities, I work from an attachment perspective. smiling couple talking to each otherI am particularly interested in how stress is manifested in our bodies and work with patients to help them to become more resilient. This includes helping individuals get in touch with their longings and feelings which previously had remained unworded, embedded in dreams and other private experiences.

As a couple therapist, I have become certified because of my extensive and ongoing training in emotionally focused therapy (EFT), a specific clinical approach developed by Susan Johnson. This approach emphasizes attachment and works with the partner's emotional states and how these either enhance or disrupt the attachment bonds. Partners learn about their cycles of disruption and how to interrupt and repair these disjunctive states. In order to create a safe space, each partner has to feel both seen and attended to even while the focus is on the partnership more than either individual.

" What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson