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Working with Susann is a gift. She's a brilliant mind and brilliant teacher. She makes challenging concepts easy to understand and usable. Her love of Nature, poems, the arts, and writings are woven into working with her, not to mention her use of various modalities, which brings an aliveness, freshness and depth to the one-on-one and group work as well. Also, I am a Tribal citizen from the Great Lakes, and I felt my own worldview could be held, seen and supported in working with her, which is very special. 

Ariel W

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The classes with Susann are truly a gift. Each session was filled with inspiring insights that accompanied me in my everyday life, offering guidance long after each class ended. Susann created beautifully designed web pages with additional material that supported the ongoing learning process. I highly recommend the IFS groups with Susann. For me she is the embodiment of compassion!

Katharina

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Your class made a profound impact on me and my relationship to pain and my inner world.  As an IFS practitioner, I felt that it filled a chasm that had existed - allowing my IFS approach to be extended to the body. [...] Thank you for an amazing experience.  I would love to work with you again and I will definitely suggest the training to my clients!

Liza Hicks

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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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I started working with Susann at a particularly challenging time in my life, working with her with mostly IFS therapy. Her compassion and intuition were incredibly helpful to me in some of my darkest hours. Susann was an incredible support to me. ​

S. Dunn

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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.

Nadine Lollino

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Susann is BRILLIANT. She has a talent at seeing reasons beyond the obvious for why I'm holding pain, etc; she is incredibly perceptive and able to notice underlying messages in what we say or how we move that inform why things may feel the way they do. I thought my time with her was illuminating. And it has helped me start ridding my body of some unusual arm/hand pain I've been having, that previously had no explanation. She's very smart, and also comfortable to be around."

Lucinda Chrisman

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​Working with Susann is an exhilarating experience. She has a talent for drawing out the creative potential within others and working with them to design practical, un-intimidating strategies to implement positive change in their lives. She is always respectful of those she works with, and communicates her ideas without judgment. She is inspiring and very professional. I highly recommend working with Susann in whatever capacity you can."

Chelsea Balzer

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​I met with Susann during what I would describe as a transition period in my life. Though change is often difficult I found the changes I was dealing with at the time particularly challenging. 

My conversation with Susann gave me a valuable and fresh perspective on some of the questions I was struggling with. It provided me with a wonderful new way to frame the changes I had been experiencing in addition to several insights into why I've developed the way I have."

Ben Gadzinski

Coaching Client

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Company

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​Susann is one of the most brilliantly creative artists I have ever known, but what's more amazing than her own creative spirit is her ability to breathe creative fire into the people that surround her.  Having worked with her both in a workshop/creative development environment– as well as in a one-on-one session– my experience with Susann has been both supportive and inspiring.  She has an uncanny ability to lead you on what becomes a self-guided journey to discover your own true creativity."

Mary Nagle

Lawyer

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Playwright

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Susann`s weekly IFS and Feldenkrais group is the highlight of my week. This combination (IFS and Feldenkrais) and the way Susann is teaching it, is so helpful for people like me, who have mind-body symptoms. Not only for the symptoms — for me, it changed my life to the better in so many ways.  It really brings self compassion to life from all different angles and perspectives.
Even though my expectations from meetings with Susann are already high, she manages again and again to surprise us with her knowledge, wisdom, empathy, and her special way to bring the message to us. Her voice leads us through the exercises with so much tenderness.
Long buried parts, that I could not let myself feel and that were fueling my symptoms, could finally come to the surface. "There is nothing to fix" — this, beside many other things, is what I learned through Susann, and it changed my outlook and my recovery completely. Finally, I learned to treat myself with love and compassion, and this changed everything for me. This will be my way to treat myself for my whole life, and I am so grateful to Susann for this.
Feeling and loving all of me — my symptoms, my worries, my fears, … all of me — this changed everything.
I also take one-on-one sessions with Susann, and they brought me back to life. After debilitating neck pain for many years, after neck surgery, stays in private clinics, psychotherapy, medication, and many other types of therapies, Susann was the one who could really help me. Every time I see her I am in awe, because of what I discover about myself with her help.

Anja H.

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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 feel very proud of how well I handled the huge step of traveling during the pandemic. I am amazed at the ease, and (degrees of) joy with which I did this. You, with your wise and beautiful guidance, contribute so much to my growth. I am so fortunate to work with you. Thank you, Susann! 

M. Wentworth

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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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Janet M.

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Susann, That workshop was amazing! I find myself really attentive to my actions and playing with movement all day long. I was looking up so much of what you shared with us but could not keep up with the ideas running through my mind and memory. I hope there is another workshop soon."

Janet McCarthy

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​I was fortunate enough to be involved in a training led by Susann. Susann did an excellent job of clearly explaining directions and the purpose behind her guided process. Because of Susann's passion and drive, our group was motivated to engage in a unique way!"

Leah Margolis

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Susann is a gifted group facilitator with the ability to embrace and fully answer questions while providing creative empowerment. She expanded our team's awareness of themselves, each other, and their collective potential."

Matt Gutschick

Artistic Director

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Rose Theater

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An incredible and knowledgeable teacher who can single handedly facilitate an environment of personal growth and change. Innovative and dynamic, her offerings are well worth the investment."

Lauren Phillips

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​Whether in the rehearsal hall, the workshop, or the classroom, Susann’s intelligence, wit, and passion lead participants to new levels and along unexpected paths. With her guidance, you will surprise yourself.”

Ron Zank

Asst. Professor of Theatre

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UNO

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Great teacher who has lived what she teaches. I learned more about me and the empowerment of living through my own beliefs through body/mind work. Her work continues your journey home to yourself..."

Kathleen Evans Johnson

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