INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
mindbody coaching

Connect to Your Compassionate Self


Find the support you need in your recovery from chronic pain and other mindbody symptoms. Our coaching sessions will help you learn to "turn down" the danger signal in your brain that is fueling your symptoms. Our work will focus on Internal Family Systems (IFS) along with somatic awareness, mindfulness practices, emotional fluency, and creative expression to empower your journey toward greater well-being.  

Mindbody coaching is personally-tailored to your experience and can lead you to greater comfort and ease, opening you to greater energy for life and creativity. 
My approach blends Pain Science Education (TMS/PPD), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Presence-Based Coaching with mindfulness, expressive arts, and embodiment practices. I am a Mindbody Coach trained as a Neural Circuit Retraining Health Professional (OvidDx - Howard Schubiner, MD). I hold a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts, am a Level 2-trained IFS Practitioner, and a Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. ​
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What clients are saying...

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By sheer luck, I enrolled in an online group training led by Susann. I was immediately impressed by her fierce intelligence, creative and intuitive approaches to mind-body issues, and great sense of humor. After the group training ended, I knew I wanted to continue working with her. She was just the wise mentor, teacher, and coach I was hoping the universe would send me.  My sessions with her are a safe haven where I feel supported, listened to, and understood. She has guided me on an incredible journey of personal growth and healing, for which I am continually grateful. If you have the chance to work with her, you will be very fortunate, indeed.

L. Johnson

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I am so thankful to have gone through my first six weeks of mindbody coaching with Susann. Her approach feels nonjudgmental, encouraging, very well-educated and creative!  At every turn she had some inspiring tale, fascinating research, or an article to encourage my reflections. I looked forward each week to our meetings, and felt motivated by her coaching to do the work specifically designed for me through the week. Susann is an excellent listener, and has great skill at reflecting back what I would share to deepen my understanding. She brings so much to the coaching experience from her many backgrounds and studies and is generous in her wealth of resources. I found this experience to be incredibly significant to my healing. I look forward to continuing this work with Susann.

N. Lollino

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I cannot recommend Susann highly enough. Although I’ve read Richard Schwartz’s book and followed his guided meditations, Susann brings IFS to life and helps it make sense. This has also had an unexpected, deeply beneficial impact on my self-compassion practices which I had been doing for years previously. Susann has helped turbo-charge the depth of self-compassion I could not have imagined. This is because she models ways of communicating with our parts so beautifully. For me, guided IFS sessions are different every time: they can be moving, challenging, surprising, confusing, intense, and each time Susann has guided me with gentle, skilful ease, giving me confidence and a strong sense of security within the process.

L.E.

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Susann worked with me as a TMS (mind-body) coach over a considerable period of time. She was a joy to work with - always quick to understand what my needs were and thoughtful and creative in her responses. She helped to frame the work I had already done with ‘Curable’ (the mind-body app. for chronic pain) in a wider context. She was always encouraging, especially when I felt I was ‘stuck’, and helping me to move on in a positive direction. I could not have wished for a better facilitator with my own mind-body work and with my ongoing journey with chronic pain. ​

B. Kushner

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The information contained in or made available through this site is for educational purposes only; it is not intended as medical or mental health advice and should not be used that way. As with any physical activity, seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health professional before participating in any movement lessons. Only a physician can diagnose mindbody/neuroplastic symptoms.