Co-Owner / Operations Director

Susan (she/her) is a co-founder of Main Line Counseling & Wellness Center who specializes in individual, couples, and group therapy. She earned her Master’s of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in PA, NJ, and NC and holds telehealth licenses in VT and FL.

Susan is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist, an IFS-I Approved Clinical Consultant and has completed Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 IFS Training as well as Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) training. Susan also has worked as Program Assistant for the IFS-Institute’s Level 1 Trainings.

Prior to founding MLCWC, she spent nearly 13 years working with leaders in the field of addictions and throughout a number of Philadelphia's community mental health/ addictions treatment facilities and the VA hospital.

Since then, she has enjoyed growing her practice, consulting, supervising and learning alongside her colleagues, and helping clients find meaning and purpose in their lives.

She loves to offer workshops (on a number of different topics!) and individual and group supervision for those preparing to obtain their PA clinical social work license (LCSW) and working towards IFS Certification, personal and professional growth.

Areas of expertise include:

• Clinical Supervision

• Consultation

• Internal Family Systems

• Anxiety

• Relationship and Communication Issues

• Couples / Relationships

Susan is an active member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work (PSCSW), Greater Philadelphia IFS Community, Specialists of Schools and her local chapter of General Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Susan uses a Person-Centered framework with therapeutic techniques from Internal Family Systems, Trauma-Informed Care, Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Cognitive Problem Solving, Somatic Experiencing, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

Susan believes in providing an anti-oppressive, caring, safe environment in which clients can be courageous. She continues to do her own work towards cultural humility, uprooting her own conditioned biases, and ways to acknowledge and shift power and privilege towards systemic change. She is open to feedback in these areas, as that is what helps her grow as a human and all of us grow towards each other in compassion.

Susan’s therapy schedule is very limited, but she can be available for business consultation and clinical consultation.