Sue is an IFS Lead Trainer, Approved Clinical Consultant, Certified IFS Therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Connecticut, USA. She has been practicing individual and group psychotherapy since 1997. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Keene State College and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Connecticut, with a specialization in social group work and casework. She has experience working as a therapist in private practice,  community based outpatient behavioral health clinic, partial hospitalization program, intensive outpatient program, and as a crisis clinician doing psychiatric consultations and medical consult liasion within a hospital setting before going into private practice full time. In addition to working with the general population, she has worked with veterans and their families, people living with a wide range of internal and external constraints and challenges to include depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and a variety of stress-related disorders resulting from difficult life transitions, and chronic medical conditions. 

Sue has also brought her social work and teaching skills into the classroom setting as an adjunct faculty member of the Social Work Department at the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, as well as teaching psychiatry residents, nursing students, social work interns, and psychology and chaplain interns about individual and group psychotherapy at a large teaching hospital in CT..