Who am I?
What a challenging question.
I am a poet, budding
artist, Certified Recovery Focusing Trainer, Focusing Coordinator-in-Training, and Mother.
I have an undergraduate degree in Sociology/Anthropology with Highest Honors and am pursuing my
Certification as an Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselor
I work part time at Costa Rica Recovery House, offering lectures and classes on the 12
Steps of Recovery and on various subjects related to recovery, run Relapse Prevention groups, and, most importantly, facilitate
Recovery Focusing groups.
I have developed Recovery
Focusing, the practice of integrating Felt Sensing into ones Program of Recovery from any addictive process.
I have facilitated Recovery Focusing groups weekly, in English and in Spanish since 2008.
Based on this work, I have developed the H.O.W. We Heal model for facilitating support groups and
project groups.
I primarily teach Focusing Partnership, either through eight-session one-on-one
personalized training; five-week Level I workshops; and 11-month Teleconference courses in "Safe Companioning
Within and Without: Felt Sensing and Felt Listening".
I have coached over 40 psychologists in Domain Focusing Partnership
towards their Certification in Focusing Oriented Therapy. for Dr. Robert Lee’s
students since 2004 (and recently with Catherine Johnson in her Focusing Oriented Therapy training in
South Africa).
Several of my articles
have been published in The Focusing Connection newsletter (See www.focusingrecources.com).
I have assisted Dr. Robert Lee with several of his Changing the Unchangeable Macroshifting
workshops.
I am a member of the Community Wellness Focusing
Lab.
I offer Felt Listening to Advanced Focusers.
I have been recognized as an “Emerging Teacher” by
the Focusing Institute and am presently a Certifying Coordinator in Training.
Here is how some people feel about working with me:
"Suzanne provides a wonderful, non-judgmental
holding space in which one has freedom to explore one's internal world and at the same time learn an enormous amount about
the technique of Focusing. Her coaching is clear and concise and infused with warmth and humor. I have so appreciated her
wealth of knowledge relating to focusing, but above all, I have loved her warmth, openness and honesty."
(Brenda
Cowley, Educational Psychologist,Med. Psychology University of Cape Town, South Africa.)
And from someone who
recently received my one-on-one, eight-week Domain Focusing phone course:
"I'm very grateful for your guidance
into my own worlds - your laughter and your empathy - It has made me feel welcome and brave as I got in to new territory.
I don't think I have found something very special - I know I have. Focusing is the bridge - your listening is the light that
hits the road and gently lets me know I's safe - I'm OK and there is another shore - even though I can't see it clearly -
I meet myself on the other side - what a wonderful friend to meet." (Chris Nunan,Chief Consultant, MA Language and Psychology,
Denmark)
My specialty is Recovery Focusing, a powerful crossing of Focusing with any addictive process.
I am able to hold a safe, caring space for those who need to speak their truth.
I love to write and walk in natural, wild settings.
Being a "lay" person rather than a psychologist makes me easy to relax with for your Focusing training,
as Andrew Carlyle, Clinical Psychologist, states below:
"Perhaps at a deeper level, working with Suzanne
evoked quite a surprising desire for greater contact with myself. I have become more and more aware of how much further focusing
could take me. In contrast with psychotherapy, focusing seems to have met a curiosity about other, deeper levels of my experience.
It was particularly valuable to work with Suzanne because she is not a psychotherapist. There has definitely been more freedom
in the parameters she has brought, yet interestingly, I have never felt unsafe. The moving beyond an analytic mode and a preoccupation
with feelings into this thing - a Felt Sense - has been refreshing and full of potential."
Focusing has led
me to a place of self love and personal creative power that cannot be adequately described.
It continues to be a fascinating journey into unknown edges of my being; always intriguing, illuminating,
and liberating.
I can listen and guide in a Focusing Way anyone who is willing to transform their lives
into a forward healing experience.
If you are ready and willing to change your life, I am ready and willing to
accompany you in experiencing the Art of Focusing Partnership.
Deep healing
and insight await you in this dynamic, egalitarian relationship of Focusing Partnership.
Glad to have you here,
visiting my site.
Keep Falling Into Your Heart.
Suzanne
