Susie’s original background is in Counselling and Hypnotherapy.
BA (Hons)
Post Advanced Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
BASE SEP Body Awareness Somatic Education Practitioner
Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT)
Post Induction Therapist (PIT)
DARe Therapist (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience)
Somatic Experiencing Training
SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner) – Certified with Maggie Kline and Dr. Raja Selvam
BASE SEP (Body Awareness Somatic Education) Practitioner – Certified with Dave Berger SEP, PT, MFT, LCMHC
Somatic Experiencing Body Work and Touch Therapy – Certified with Dave Berger
Best Practices In Treating Adults Enmeshed With A Parent
Certified Therapist – October 2022
Overcoming Enmeshment – Dr Keneth Adams
Post Advanced Somatic Experiencing Training with DR. Peter Levine
Fear Courage and Dignity – A Heros Journey
Sexual Healing – Transformation of a deep wound – with Dr. Peter Levine
Healing Energy Wells – with Dr. Peter Levine
Healing Archetypes – with Dr. Peter Levine
Through the Eye of the Needle, part 1 & 2 (working with coma, anaesthesia and near-death states, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Dr. Peter Levine) – Denmark 2012
Through the Eye of the Needle, part 1 & 2 (working with coma, anaesthesia and near-death states, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Dr. Peter Levine) – Switzerland 2015/2016
Through the Eye of the Needle, parts 1, 2, 3 & 4 (working with coma, anaesthesia and near-death states, Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Dr. Peter Levine)
Bones and Viscera – with Dr. Peter Levine
Emotion, Memory and Identity – with Dr. Peter Levine
Aggression and Depression – with Dr. Peter Levine
Working with Chronic Pain – with Dr. Peter Levine
Pre and Peri-natal Trauma, Attachment and Bonding – with Dr. Ray Castellino, Thomas Harms, Maggie Kline and Dr. Peter Levine
Trauma Compulsivity and Addiction – with Dr. Peter Levine
Working with Motor vehicle accident and Whip Lash – Kathy Kaine
Sensory Motor Processing Disorder and the Trauma Continuum, Paediatric Roots of Trauma –
with Ana Du Valle and Dr. Bob Scaer
Clinical applications of the Polyvagal Theory – with Prof. Stephen Porges
The Polyvagal theory – with Prof. Stephen Porges
The Oxytocin Concept – with Dr. Sue Carter
Working with Stress and Trauma with Greater Efficiency- with Dr. Raja Selvam SEP
Master Advanced I & II- with Dr. Peter Levine, Switzerland 2014
Trans Generational Trauma – with Dr. Peter Levine & Dr. Franz Rupert (DE), Switzerland 2014
False Memory/True Memory – with Dr. Peter Levine, Switzerland 2014
Sexual Healing/Transformation of a deep wound- with Dr. Peter Levine & Marianne Bentzen (DK) 2015
Chronic Pain – with Dr. Peter Levine & Maggie Phillips 2015
Eye Of the Needle – with Dr. Peter Levine 2015
Post Advanced Training with Dr. Peter Levine:
1. Intro-ceptive Awareness and the Body.
2. Eye Work, Bones and Viscera.
3. Shame and Pride.
4. Medical Trauma.
5. Case Consult and Supervision with Dr. Peter Levine, Zurich, 2017.
Other Somatic Experiencing Training
Breath of Life Conference – The Body Bears the Burden 2011 and 2013 – both Dr. Peter Levine
DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience ) Certifications – with Dr. Diane Poole Heller Ph.D
Susie is in the assistant programme for DARe/ SATe (Somatic Attachment Training)
Trauma and Attachment Advanced Series
1. Healing Attachment Wounds
2. Creating Healthy Adult Relationships
3. The Neurobiology of Loving Relationships
4. Victim Perpetrator Dynamics (The End of Us and Them)
5. Intergenerational Trauma – Cologne
Brainspotting – BSP – Dr Mark Grixti
PIT-Post Induction Therapy Training – with Pia Mellody, Meadows Treatment Centre, Arizona USA
PIT Training with Pia Mellody
Feeling Reduction Intensive Training with Pia Mellody
Inner Child Intensive Training with Pia Mellody
Love Addiction/ Love Avoidance Workshop 5 days
Survivors Trauma Resolution Workshop 5 Days
Meadows Pioneers in Recovery Conference – with Pia Mellody, Claudia Black, Maureen Canning, Bessel Van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine and John Bradshaw
Meadows Alumini Retreat ‘Rocketed into the 4th Dimension’ – with Pia Mellody and John Bradshaw
The Meadows Family Week March 2011
PIT Review with Pia Mellody and Sara Bridge May 2014, Scotsdale AZ
PIT Review with Pia Mellody and Sara Bridge Jan 2015, Scotsdale AZ
Couples Boundary Workshop Training led by Pia Mellody – Feb 2015
Your Love Keeps Me Alive:
Understanding and treatings love addiction an the triggers that sets it up – Oct 2022 – Havi Kang – LPC, CSTAT, CPTT
Terry Real – Relational life – Couples Training
New Rules for Couples
Grandiose Women/Shutdown Men
Working With Love Avoidant’s
Coming Back From Infidelity
Relational Life Institute Couples Practicum Training 1 & 2 – with Terry Real, Boston, USA
Working with difficult Leaders – Terry Real
Relationship Boot Camp, Couples Workshop – with Terry Real, USA
Relationship 9/11 – with Charlie Risien – Pine Grove Treatment Centre, Forest General Hospital, Hattesberg, Mississippi, USA
Understanding Couples – with The Tavistock and Portman Clinic
Introducing Psychoanalytic Ideas on Sexual Perversions, Delinquency and violence – with The Tavistock and Portman Clinic
The Therapeutic Impact of working with men who have experienced sexual violation – Survivors UK
Lust, Anger, Love, Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Road to Healthy Intimacy – Maureen Canning, Meadows Treatment Centre
Cruise Control, Understanding Sexual Addiction in Gay Men – with Rob Weiss
Advance Case work in Sexual Addiction – with Rob Weiss
Clinical Practice with Sex Addicts – with Rob Weiss
Rupture and Repair – 10 Seminars with Confer
Think Body, Embodied awareness with Roz Carroll Jan – Dec 2011
Life Works – Treatment of Eating Disorders Conference 2008
Psycho Neuro-Immunology and Psychotherapy, Finding the Interface – with Confer, Dr. Michael Ash 2012
Feeding Our Minds, what we Need to Know about Nutrition and Mental Health – with Confer
John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2010 – Attachment in the 21st Century
Is there such a thing as the Impossible patient? – with Confer 2010
Contemporary views on working with Transference 2010
One Case 3 Perspectives – with Confer 2010
Brain Mapping – with Confer 2010
Counter Transferences, Intersubjective Fields and Enactments – with Confer 2010
Psychotheraputic Skills Summer School – Working with Borderline Psychopathology 2011
Why Psychotherapy Works – with Confer/ Dan Siegal – 2011
The Emotional Development of the Infant – with Dr. Amanda Jones (Confer and Tavistock Clinic) 11/2011
The Theraputic frame – Seminar Series with Confer 10/1 – 21/3/2011
Making Trauma Therapy Safer – with Babette Rothschild 2012
Neuroplasticity and the Emotional Processes of the Brain – with Dr. Jaak Panksepp 2012
European Association of Body Psychotherapists Conference 2012 Cambridge
The Clinical assessment of Attachment patterns – with Dr. Steye Farnfield 2012
The assessment and Treatment of Patients suffering from Complex and Developmental PTSD –
with Dr. Felicity de Zulueta 2012
Assessment and Protocols for working with Dissociative Clients – with Remy Aqurone 2012
Yoga, the Brain and Mental Health – with Confer 3 Day Conference
The Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life seminar – with Dr Una McCluskey, London, November 2013
Effective Therapy for Personality Disorders – Dr. Gwen Adshead
Dr Adshead is the Forensic Psychotherapist and Psychiatrist for Broadmoor
Attachment from theory to therapy
Dr Gwen Adshead
Dr Christopher Clulow
Professor Jeremy Holmes
Dr Una McCluskey
Medicating with food and sex
When disordered eating and intamacy disorders collide – Dr Stehanie Carnes
The Vulnerable Narcissist
Understanding the impact of gender and attachment – Dr Gwen Ash