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Susanne Babbel MFT, PhD

About

Susanne Babbel, PhD, MFT # 42446, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing with a trauma specialty in her private practice in San Francisco, CA. She is the author of the self-help book Heal the Body. Heal the Mind. A Somatic Approach to Moving Beyond Trauma and has been a contributing author on trauma for nearly a decade to the Psychology Today Online Blog. Dr. Babbel has been quoted by TODAY, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Verily, Refinery29, New York Times Motherlode Blog, and more.

Books by Susanne Babbel MFT, PhD
Recent Posts
Letting Go of Hurt
Would you rather forget than forgive? Letting go can allow you to enter and inhabit the present moment, relieve stress created by negative thoughts, and access newly freed energy.
What Makes One Person a Bystander and Another a Hero?

We don’t have to risk our lives to make a difference in someone else's. How to move from being the bystander to becoming an active “helper.”

We don’t have to risk our lives to make a difference in someone else's. How to move from being the bystander to becoming an active “helper.”

Rejection Hangover: Abandonment Anxiety

Feeling nervous while dating is normal but when the experience feels like a psychological hangover, you may be dealing with abandonment anxiety caused childhood trauma.

Feeling nervous while dating is normal but when the experience feels like a psychological hangover, you may be dealing with abandonment anxiety caused childhood trauma.

Why Apologizing Can Be So Good (for You)

Apologizing is difficult for many of us...No one wants to be seen as a bad person, and we usually want to protect our image.

Apologizing is difficult for many of us...No one wants to be seen as a bad person, and we usually want to protect our image.

Typhoon Haiyan: What Can We Do?

Perceived support, providing long-term and local community support, taking care of your nervous system, donating blood, volunteering or helping volunteers, and not sending hand me downs can all be additional ways to help the survivors of the Philippine disaster.

Perceived support, providing long-term and local community support, taking care of your nervous system, donating blood, volunteering or helping volunteers, and not sending hand me downs can all be additional ways to help the survivors of the Philippine disaster.

What’s Wrong with Negative Emotions?

Sometimes emotions don’t tell us the truth. However, you might not know how to change the beliefs.

Sometimes emotions don’t tell us the truth. However, you might not know how to change the beliefs.