Susannah Kavanaugh, MA, MBA, is a Licensed Mental Health Clinician (LMHC) in the state of Massachusetts and a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC). Susannah has extensive experience counseling families in crisis. Families have sought clinical guidance based upon mental health, emotional, physical, social, economic and academic issues. She has counseled parents, foster parents, grandparents, children, adolescents, and young adults. She has provided individual therapy to children ranging in ages from 3 through 21.
Susannah has provided clinical benefits to families experiencing distress in relationship to family conflict, sibling rivalry, depression, self-mutilation, school refusal, selective mutism, developmental disabilities, chronic disease, autism, aspergers, ADHD, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, domestic violence, and grief, among others. Susannah has been effective in advocating for her clients across community settings and aligning clients with effective resources for additional support.
Susannah has extensive training in family systems. It is her firm belief that each family member’s behavior impacts every other family member in the system. She enjoys celebrating family members’ strengths and empowering families to leverage their strengths in order to gain skills and strategies toward greater family harmony. She supports clients in the collaboration process as they identify their own specific goals. She further strategizes with the family to identify the action steps in which to engage in order for the family members to attain those goals.
Currently, Susannah is a part-time lecturer in the undergraduate psychology department at Regis College. She volunteers at The Bina Farm Center in the Hippotherapy Riding Program. She lectured on Ethical Issues and Concerns to Graduate students at Immaculata University in Malvern, Pennsylvania. She worked on the In Home Therapy team at Riverside Community Care out of Upton, MA.
Susannah has also completed Social Thinkng ® clinical training.
Susannah's private practice that began at The Whole Child, Inc. is Dynamic Family Therapy. http://www.dynamicfamilytherapy.com/_ and has moved to Norwood, MA.
Susannah has provided clinical benefits to families experiencing distress in relationship to family conflict, sibling rivalry, depression, self-mutilation, school refusal, selective mutism, developmental disabilities, chronic disease, autism, aspergers, ADHD, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, domestic violence, and grief, among others. Susannah has been effective in advocating for her clients across community settings and aligning clients with effective resources for additional support.
Susannah has extensive training in family systems. It is her firm belief that each family member’s behavior impacts every other family member in the system. She enjoys celebrating family members’ strengths and empowering families to leverage their strengths in order to gain skills and strategies toward greater family harmony. She supports clients in the collaboration process as they identify their own specific goals. She further strategizes with the family to identify the action steps in which to engage in order for the family members to attain those goals.
Currently, Susannah is a part-time lecturer in the undergraduate psychology department at Regis College. She volunteers at The Bina Farm Center in the Hippotherapy Riding Program. She lectured on Ethical Issues and Concerns to Graduate students at Immaculata University in Malvern, Pennsylvania. She worked on the In Home Therapy team at Riverside Community Care out of Upton, MA.
Susannah has also completed Social Thinkng ® clinical training.
Susannah's private practice that began at The Whole Child, Inc. is Dynamic Family Therapy. http://www.dynamicfamilytherapy.com/_ and has moved to Norwood, MA.