ABOUT SUSAN
Perhaps the most important thing to know about me is how much I love doing what is described in this website. The fulfillment I experience from it is good for me and good for you. When I am fulfilled, I find that there is more creativity, flexibility, focus, attentiveness, intuition and humor present in sessions with clients. 
The work is always changing and developing , sometimes in ways I never anticipated. That's part of the joy of it!
A solid foundation in health care has helped me to expand into the so called "alternative" work I do today. I have been a licensed Occupational Therapist since 1977 and continue to serve children and their families in this capacity.
CREDENTIALS NARRATIVE
After earning a degree in English Literature, mostly because the English department delved much more deeply into the inner workings of people than the Psychology department did, I worked as a social worker for the Department of Welfare in the Big Apple ... meaning New York City for those of you who may be thinking of a computer instead of a town...
In those days you only needed to have a college degree to get most any job. Three to six story walk-up's, twelve to fifteen story apartment buildings with drug deals and hold-up's in the elevators and hallways, and parents hoping their children would not only live to see another day, but would have a better life. Most of the mail boxes got robbed on welfare check day, so sometimes I was the welfare angel with a replacement check. A gal just never knows when she may need an English literature degree in a job like that!
Well, time moved on; delving into my own psyche was becoming a real adventure, and I decided a degree in Occupational Therapy might be more practical in terms of work, so I got one. My first job was on an acute care psychiatric unit in a university teaching hospital, and it engaged me fully for the next 8 years. It was there that my interest in the social-emotional-somatic aspect of life really burgeoned. The wonderful and dreadful role-models among the staff plus the hospitalized clients, helped me to develop and hone many foundational skills.
Later, after that job, and an extraordinary work experience at a humanistic education center, I moved to New Mexico and opted to work with children. What a great decision that was! At first I worked with children in the elementary school grades, then with the public schools' program for 3 and 4 year olds, and lastly in early intervention for children birth to 3 years old. I feel so blessed to work and play with these shining little ones.
During my 24 years in New Mexico, I have moved from being a person who wanted to roll her eyes (and probably did) if she heard the word "energy" or "vibe" when applied to someone or something, to a person who now knows that everything is made of energy and has a signature vibration. I discovered the richness of alternative healing forms and explored them with a passion, becoming well experienced in a few (see website menu bar on the left of each web page).
The way I learn best is experientially. The motivation I had over the years to see counselors, a channeler, various superb body workers, astrologers, shamans, and so on, was for my own growth and healing, and one of the fringe benefits was learning about different forms of healing work. Sometimes when I experienced a form of healing that seemed profound, I would study it and try it out myself, such as with craniosacral methods.
I am someone who loves independent study supplemented with teaching from others that truly speaks to my interests. This was my approach to Astrology. My Shamanic training came primarily from the spirit realms and was later bolstered with Sandy Ingerman workshops. Channeling evolved gradually over the years as I worked with clients and through my personal experience as the client of a channeler/counselor/shaman/mentor, Marya Low. My Craniosacral course work was first with the Upledger Institute and later with other practitioners.
In addition to the above, some educational highlights over the years have been a week with Carl Rogers and Ruth Sanford, training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a weekend with Jean Houston, a seminar on touch with Ashley Montague, holotropic breath work, siddhis with Tom Kenyon, swimming with wild dolphins, the channeled works of Sanaya Roman (Orin) and Esther Hicks (Abraham), independent study and practice of dream analysis for my own growth, which was one of the best trainings I ever had.
All this being said, however, it is the interaction with clients and the energetic presences they knowingly or unknowingly bring with them to a session, where much of the most poignant learning occurs.
I love life-long learning and seeing my work with clients change and grow. 
And the clients seem to like what it does for them, so it feels like a win-win situation. Loving one's work and feeling like it is what you are meant to do.....well, in some respects it doesn't get any better than that!
