Suzy Young, MA, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #131869
My name is Suzy and I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist I started my career working with children and parents as a special education school teacher in 2011, and have been working in my capacity as a clinician since 2017. I graduated from The Wright Institute with my Masters in Counseling Psychology in the fall of 2018. I specialize in working with individual adults, children, and parents/caregivers. My therapeutic approach is warm, relational, strengths-based, curious, and collaborative.
When working with adults, I take a compassion and mindfulness-based relational approach. I consider myself a holistic psychotherapist, meaning I address how your mind, body, and spirit are all interconnected and contribute to your current state of functioning. I firmly believe that we all hold the innate wisdom to heal ourselves, and by looking at our lives holistically we can move toward a place of wholeness. I often incorporate parts work, mindfulness exercises, somatic awareness, and mindful self-compassion practices when working with my clients. I have experience working with anxiety and depression, stress/burnout, life transitions, family systems, relational issues, attachment trauma, and parenting concerns. I balance allowing you to forge your own path in our work together while also challenging you to evaluate thought patterns that might be holding you back and keeping you stuck.
When working with children and adolescents, I take a child-centered, anti-adultist approach. I utilize child-centered play therapy, sand tray therapy, expressive arts therapy, and mindfulness practices. I have extensive experience working with children and teens who struggle with emotional regulation, trauma, anxiety, grief, learning differences, and life transitions.
I hold additional training in Hand-in-Hand parenting, child-centered play therapy, filial therapy, and brainspotting.
I am excited to offer brainspotting (BSP), an innovative trauma-informed therapy that combines aspects of EMDR, mindfulness, and brain and body-based therapies. It works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neurophysiological sources of pain, trauma, and a variety of other challenging symptoms. It is effective for a wide array of emotional and somatic conditions and can help decrease depression, anxiety, phobias, and addictions. The goal of brainspotting is to bypass the conscious, neocortical thinking (which is usually activated in typical talk therapy) to access the deeper, subcortical emotional and body-based parts of the brain where trauma is held.
What is Brainspotting good for?
Releasing traumatic experiences
Do you find yourself reliving old hurts from your past, stuck and unable to let go? Brainspotting can help you release the charge these old hurts hold over you in a safe and non-threatening way. Clients find that after using Brainspotting to work on a traumatic "spot" they can still remember the event, but it doesn't hurt or upset them anymore.
Letting go of old relationships
Do you find yourself continuing to mourn the loss of a relationship, months or years after it has ended? Do you find yourself stuck in hoping this person would come back or worried you will never experience a love as deep? Brainspotting can you help you let go of the hurt and release this person with love so that you can open your heart fully to a new love that is sustaining, healthy, and reciprocal.
Self-Criticism
Do you doubt yourself often and find yourself being very hard on yourself for mistakes, perceived failures, or not achieving what you hoped you would by this point in your life? Brainspotting, parts work, and working in relational therapy can help you release the harsh inner critic and find self-compassion, a sense of wholeness and ease.
Job Burn out
Are you finding yourself uninspired by your work, fatigued, not performing your best, and maybe even dreading Monday mornings? Brainspotting can you you free up the mental space that is dragging you down and help you get reinspired to do the work you love or help you get ready to make a change that will better serve you.
If you’d like to learn more about me or my services, please reach out to schedule a consultation call. I look forward to supporting you in your journey towards wholeness and authenticity.
Phone: (415) 498-0714
Email: [email protected]
Office location: San Francisco
When working with adults, I take a compassion and mindfulness-based relational approach. I consider myself a holistic psychotherapist, meaning I address how your mind, body, and spirit are all interconnected and contribute to your current state of functioning. I firmly believe that we all hold the innate wisdom to heal ourselves, and by looking at our lives holistically we can move toward a place of wholeness. I often incorporate parts work, mindfulness exercises, somatic awareness, and mindful self-compassion practices when working with my clients. I have experience working with anxiety and depression, stress/burnout, life transitions, family systems, relational issues, attachment trauma, and parenting concerns. I balance allowing you to forge your own path in our work together while also challenging you to evaluate thought patterns that might be holding you back and keeping you stuck.
When working with children and adolescents, I take a child-centered, anti-adultist approach. I utilize child-centered play therapy, sand tray therapy, expressive arts therapy, and mindfulness practices. I have extensive experience working with children and teens who struggle with emotional regulation, trauma, anxiety, grief, learning differences, and life transitions.
I hold additional training in Hand-in-Hand parenting, child-centered play therapy, filial therapy, and brainspotting.
I am excited to offer brainspotting (BSP), an innovative trauma-informed therapy that combines aspects of EMDR, mindfulness, and brain and body-based therapies. It works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neurophysiological sources of pain, trauma, and a variety of other challenging symptoms. It is effective for a wide array of emotional and somatic conditions and can help decrease depression, anxiety, phobias, and addictions. The goal of brainspotting is to bypass the conscious, neocortical thinking (which is usually activated in typical talk therapy) to access the deeper, subcortical emotional and body-based parts of the brain where trauma is held.
What is Brainspotting good for?
Releasing traumatic experiences
Do you find yourself reliving old hurts from your past, stuck and unable to let go? Brainspotting can help you release the charge these old hurts hold over you in a safe and non-threatening way. Clients find that after using Brainspotting to work on a traumatic "spot" they can still remember the event, but it doesn't hurt or upset them anymore.
Letting go of old relationships
Do you find yourself continuing to mourn the loss of a relationship, months or years after it has ended? Do you find yourself stuck in hoping this person would come back or worried you will never experience a love as deep? Brainspotting can you help you let go of the hurt and release this person with love so that you can open your heart fully to a new love that is sustaining, healthy, and reciprocal.
Self-Criticism
Do you doubt yourself often and find yourself being very hard on yourself for mistakes, perceived failures, or not achieving what you hoped you would by this point in your life? Brainspotting, parts work, and working in relational therapy can help you release the harsh inner critic and find self-compassion, a sense of wholeness and ease.
Job Burn out
Are you finding yourself uninspired by your work, fatigued, not performing your best, and maybe even dreading Monday mornings? Brainspotting can you you free up the mental space that is dragging you down and help you get reinspired to do the work you love or help you get ready to make a change that will better serve you.
If you’d like to learn more about me or my services, please reach out to schedule a consultation call. I look forward to supporting you in your journey towards wholeness and authenticity.
Phone: (415) 498-0714
Email: [email protected]
Office location: San Francisco