About Susanna
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Brave Change Coaching came out of the hardest thing I’ve ever done—ending a thirty-year marriage because I understood that to stay was to disappear.
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Today I work with people standing at similar crossroads—moments when the life you’ve been living no longer reflects who you’re becoming.
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That might mean divorce or the end of a relationship.
It might mean a career shift, a loss, an empty nest—
or simply the growing sense that something has to change.
Whatever brought you here, the question is the same:
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What Now?
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I’m a clinically trained art psychotherapist with 18 years in private practice—and I made a deliberate move into coaching.
Not away from depth, but toward movement.
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Most people who find me have already done significant therapy.
They know their story.
What they need now is someone who can help them act on it.
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My sessions are structured and directive.
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I give assignments.
We track what’s shifting.
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My clinical background doesn’t disappear in this work—it sharpens it.
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I can recognize when something older is in the way:
a pattern, a wound, a belief that’s been running the show for decades.
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When that happens, we work with it—
so insight becomes movement, not another place to stay stuck.
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I also bring my own lived experience to this work.
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Not as the center of the conversation, but as a quiet foundation.
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When a client knows their guide has been in the dark and found their way through, something shifts.
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They feel less alone.
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That trust is the foundation everything else is built on.
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Real change isn’t easy.
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But with courage, support, and the right guidance, it becomes the beginning of a life that feels more honest, more sovereign, and more alive.
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I'm a clinically trained art psychotherapist with advanced training in trauma, life coaching, and spiritual traditions — and over two decades of experience helping people move from insight to action.
My clinical training means that when something older is blocking the way — a pattern, a wound, a belief that's been running the show for decades — I can recognize it and work with it. But most clients who come to me have already done significant therapy. They know their story. What they need now is someone who can help them move.
That's where coaching comes in. It's directive. It's forward. Sessions are structured. I give assignments. We track what's shifting. This is a space to be heard and to move.
And I bring myself to this work. I share selectively from my own Brave Change journey — not to make it about me, but because when a client knows their coach has genuinely been in the dark and found their way through, something relaxes. They feel seen in a different way. That trust is the foundation everything else is built on — and it's what allows me to walk alongside you, to support, guide, and encourage you through your own crossing.