Susan Stiffelman is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor, an Educational Therapist, Parent Educator and Professional Speaker. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Developmental Psychology from Johnston College/ University of Redlands, a California K-9 Teaching Credential, a Masters of Arts degree from Antioch University in Clinical Psychology, and a California Marriage and Family Therapist license (#28749) since 1991.

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Susan works with children, teens, adults, couples and families with academic, circumstantial, and/or emotional challenges, including anxiety, depression, relationship problems, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, AD/HD, explosive behavior, and communication problems.

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In her private work, Susan wears many hats. She helps children and adults who have difficulties with focus, impulsivity and planning learn truly usable techniques for dealing with memory and organizational challenges, as well as help in coping with the emotional fallout resulting from the endless frustrations and low self-esteem suffered by those who have ongoing struggles staying on task and organized, and managing distractions and impulses.

She helps parents of young and grade school-aged children learn how to manage meltdowns, childhood anxiety, challenges with friends and siblings, academic bumps-in-the-road, and the various array of other typical childhood issues.

Susan also works extensively with teens and their parents, guiding them to reconnect with one another, move out of depression, resistance and the many other stumbling blocks of adolescence, and get back on track emotionally, academically and in their relationships.

Ms. Stiffelman is very experienced at teaching and using The Work, a simple but powerful cognitive tool for identifying--and loosening the grip of-- the stressful thoughts and beliefs that contribute to stress and relationship problems. 

Perhaps of most importance is the fact that everything Susan teaches has been "tested" as she has raised her now 17-year old son, who is still joyful, resilient, authentic...and appropriately cool with his Mom!

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