Location
Client meetings by phone, Zoom or in-office. Offering 25-min. brief teletherapy for single topics like anxiety, relationship or work issues
About
Finances
- Cost per Session: $110 - $180
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Ceridian
- Empire BlueCross BlueShield
- HealthFirst
- Kaiser (Out-of-Network)
- Medicare
- Military OneSource
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- out of network
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 26 Years
- Certificate: John F. Kennedy University
- School: John F. Kennedy University
- Year Graduated: 1996
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: International Career Institute, United Kingdom
- Certificate Date: 1999
- Degree: University of California / MA Art History
- Year graduated: 1972
Susan Abbott's Groups
Heart & Mind and Self-Leadership Support Group
The ways we can improve our sense of personal and professional fulfillment through a better understanding of our heart and mind. Are you in a life/work transition this bi-monthly group consists of a series of talks, readings and mindfulness exercises aimed at opening our hearts to greater self-compassion and creativity and our minds to less reactive and more skillful- guidance. Conducted in a small, group setting-a nurturing place to learn to be more proactive in all aspects of your life. For a full description and facilitator BIO: Contact Susan, Counseling and Career Services: 707 633-5211
Marketing and Career Development for VisualArtists
A one-day seminar focused on all the necessary and pragmatic marketing and self-promotion tools needed for a successful art career and the skills and strategies required for effective career growth and for the promotion of sales. The course includes secrets for building a resume and creating sales outside of the gallery world and well as how to tailor them to meet your particular skills and temperament. For artists with self-esteem or creative blocks there is also an on going Artist's Way group for building soft art-career skills.
Heart & Mind Self-Leadership Group
The ways we can improve our sense of personal and professional fulfillment through a better understanding of our heart and mind. Are you in a life/work transition this bi-monthly group consists of a series of talks, readings and mindfulness exercises aimed at opening our hearts to greater self-compassion and creativity and our minds to less reactive and more skillful- guidance. Conducted in a small, group setting-a nurturing place to learn to be more proactive in all aspects of your life. For a full description and facilitator BIO: Contact Susan, Counseling and Career Services: 707 633-5211
Location
Specialties
- Anxiety
- Self Esteem
- Career Counseling
- Other Spiritual or Religious Affiliations
Issues
- Adoption
- Alcohol Use
- Alzheimer's
- Behavioral Issues
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Impulsivity
- Chronic Pain
- Codependency
- Coping Skills
- Couples Therapy, Low Self-Esteem, Creative Types,
- Depression
- Divorce
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Internet Addiction
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Women's Issues
Mental Health
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Thinking Disorders
Client Focus
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
Communities
- Aviation Professionals
- Body Positivity
- Cancer
- Gay Allied
- Immuno-disorders
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Single Mother
- Vegan Allied
- Veterans
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Eclectic
- Experiential Therapy
- Expressive Arts
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Holistic and customized to each person
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Interpersonal
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Multicultural
- Narrative
- Person-Centered
- Positive Psychology
- Reality Therapy
- Relational
- Strength-Based
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Group
(707) 368-4136