If you keep finding yourself in the same relationship dynamics, emotional reactions, or patterns, Susan helps you understand why—and how to actually change it.
Susan Lawlor, LMFT
Patterns, Trauma & Relationship Dynamics
Best Fit For: People who keep ending up in the same relationship dynamics, emotional reactions, or patterns—and don’t know how to change it
Focus: Trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship dynamics, communication
Style: Grounded, steady, focused on real change
Susan helps individuals and couples understand why the same patterns keep repeating—and how to actually break them.
Her work is practical and direct. Not just insight, but change that holds over time.
She brings a unique mix of clinical experience and real-world systems thinking, helping clients make sense of both their emotions and how their relationships function day to day.
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Susan has over 18 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Before becoming a therapist, she spent over 20 years in the business world, eventually serving as a Controller/CFO and helping scale a company into the largest coatings contractor in Canada.
That background still shapes how she works today—balancing emotional depth with structure and clarity.
She later earned her master’s degree from Saybrook University and now serves as Director of Behavioral Health at Klamath Tribal Health and Family Services.
With individuals, Susan focuses on helping clients recognize and shift long-standing emotional patterns. With couples, she works on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and helping partners reconnect in a way that feels real and sustainable.
She also integrates mindfulness, yoga, and brain-based approaches to help clients regulate emotions and feel more grounded in daily life.