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workshops and speaking
To book Susan please use contact form
BREAKING THE SUICIDE CYCLE: A ROAD TO EMPOWERMENT
Susan motivates & empowers audiences of all sizes with her personal narrative, experiential exercises and life-saving strategies from her book, How I Stayed Alive When My BrainWas Trying to Kill Me: One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention. Topics include: asking for help, safety contracts, feelings versus facts, HALT, therapy, meditation, mindfulness, The Brady Bunch Syndrome, self-acceptance, brain food & more. Narrative, visual, experiential.
"Your presentation
validates my hope."
parent of son
with bipolar disorder
INTENDED AUDIENCE
People living with mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts, therapists, teachers, students, healthcare professionals, first responders, clergy, military personel, law enforcement. Handouts provided.
A VIEW FROM THE COUCH: FROM CLIENT TO CLINICIAN
In addition to content from her first book, Susan educates professsional audiences with a unique perspective, informed by forty years as a therapy client, four in-patient psychiatric hospitalizations & earning a Master of Social Work degree at the age of fifty. Topics include: CARE (Compassion, Acceptance, Respect, Empathy), ABCs (Accessibility, Boundaries, Consistency), The Seven Voices of Depression, using humor and more. Narrative and experiential.
Handouts provided.
" It is rare to have a provider who
has also been in the shoes of a client.
There is no “us” and “them”.
clinical social worker
department of children and families
"WOW! Great introspection
and ability to convey what worked and what didn't for her."
adolescent case manager
Ridgeview Institute
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Mental health/medical professionals, students, teachers, first responders, clergy, military personel, law enforcement.
keynotes and panels
To book Susan please use contact form
Susan delivers powerful keynotes related to living with mental illness, suicide prevention, human capacity for change, mental health advocacy, mental health parity and obliterating stigma. Susan also brings unique, learned and compassionate insight to conference panel discussions.
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