About Dr. Susan MacNeil
“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.” – The Dalai Lama
I earned my Ph.D. in clinical psychology and I'm a licensed Mental Health Counselor and Board Certified Coach specializing in psychotherapy with individuals, couples and groups. A variety of issues that I commonly deal with are trauma, including childhood trauma, depression and feelings of emptiness, anxiety (fear & worry), plus death anxiety and performance anxiety, loss, women’s issues, spiritual and midlife crises, and career changes. I bring my expertise from the past 25 years of counseling and strive to adapt my work to each person employing established and innovative methods such as: psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment focused EMDR, transpersonal & positive psychology, relational psychoanalysis, psychosynthesis, cognitive techniques, and psychodrama. My background and proficiency as a martial artist, dance therapist, and performance artist, similarly enlighten my work.
My specialties include:
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Relationship Therapy
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Couples Counseling
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EMDR (Attachment Focused)
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Spiritual Crisis
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Creative Meditation
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Trauma
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Artists’ Issues
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Group Therapy
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Loss & Grief
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Life Coaching
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Health & Family Issues
I enjoy characterizing my practice as Psychology with a Soul, since I have been a long-time student of the Ageless Wisdom philosophy incorporating Eastern and Western traditions. I have experienced that the system of Raja Yoga, known as the Yoga of the Mind, or the Science of the Soul, informs my practice on the deepest curative levels.
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My independent study of esoteric literature since the mid 70’s has facilitated my many publications and presentations. I appear as one of the “World’s leading psychological and spiritual experts…” in the PBS Documentaries: Love, Overcoming the Dark Side, Wake Up and Get Healthy, and Happiness, (produced by Gary Null Productions-see links and resources tab on this site) along with Lama Surya Das, Robert Thurman, Ervin Laszlo, and others.
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I am affiliated with the non-governmental organization (NGO) the Aquarian Age Community (AAC) headquartered at the United Nations, and have presented at the UN on various topics relating to the goal of the AAC which is to facilitate and strengthen the spiritual work of the UN.