Susan Hammoudeh, Psy.D.

Welcome. Thank you for taking the time to visit my site.  I hope learning a bit about me and my approach will make you feel more at ease with considering psychotherapy as a means of support.

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
–Carl Jung

My Approach To Therapy

Our psyches are resilient, but can become fragile when neglected. Psychotherapy allows for a unique type of nurturing in which emotions are contained and processed, and thus they become more manageable. Processing our emotions leads to insight into our psychological complexities, including unhealthy patterns. This helps remove barriers and paves the way for emotional stability. 

The majority of my clinical work has been trauma-focused, which included treating adults and children who have endured emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.   

In my current practice, I work with adults who have suffered trauma or who are feeling burdened by life challenges and transitions. I also specialize in reproductive trauma (i.e. fertility struggles, miscarriages). In addition, my speciality expands to trauma and emotional difficulties surrounding pregnancy and the postpartum period.

There exists a tendency to dismiss the psychological impact of the aforementioned experiences, so I hope to bring light to them and offer a space in which one can fully explore and process their pain. Loss and grief are common themes in these areas, whether the burden is an inability to conceive or the suffering of a miscarriage. These themes also relate to the feeling of losing oneself during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood. I would also like to stress that the partners in these scenarios also grieve, and thus deserve a therapeutic space to process that grief. I offer a space in which you will be heard and seen; one of unconditional, positive regard for the human condition. You will learn to reconnect with parts of yourself that have been lost.

Credentials

Psy.D.

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
Adler School of Professional Psychology

Postpartum Stress Center

Certificate in Prenatal and Postpartum Depression and Anxiety

American Society for Reproductive Medicine

Certificates in Basic Infertility and Treatment & Interventions