Curriculum Vitae

 

Susan Warren Warshow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Board Certified Diplomate, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with offices in Woodland Hills (since 1980) and Los Angeles (Westwood), CA. She practices psychotherapy for individuals and couples, and her seminars and training programs are described in the ”Events” section of this site.

She also offers private supervision for professionals in Experiential Dynamic Therapy.

She will present at the 4th International IEDTA conference held in Aarhus, Denmark on August 24, 25 and 26, 2007. Previously, she presented at the International Conference for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in Amsterdam in September, 2002, and at the Third International Congress of the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association at UCLA in September, 2005.  She has guest lectured at California State University Northridge, California Graduate Institute and California School of Professional Psychology, and has given a series of lectures on personality disorders to several medical staffs at hospitals in the Southern California area. She has published several articles in the Ad Hoc Bulletin, an international journal of the Dutch Association for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (the VKDP).

Her former employment includes psychotherapist, supervisor and coordinator of continuing education at the Department of Psychiatry at Northridge Hospital. She coordinated over 100 public presentations on child abuse and neglect in L.A. County for the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring and was publicity director for L.A.’s first child abuse hotline.

 

“Susan Warren is a gifted therapist - with superb clinical skills and the warmth and flexibility to tailor them to the needs of any given patient. I am confident that these same abilities would be present in her teaching. In fact, I've heard nothing but raves from her students. I have always been impressed with Susan's profound empathy for both patient and therapist, which surely helps her create an open learning environment.”
 

Patricia Coughlin (Della Selva), Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Former faculty Northwestern University Medical School and Albany Medical School

Author: Intensive Short term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique

Co-author with Dr. David Malan: Lives Transformed

“I was so impressed with your "User Friendly EDT" presentation in LA. But even more, there is something so powerful about you, about your presence, that really spoke to me. I'm so glad to hear that you will be training therapists. You will be wonderful. One of the things I really loved about you is that I get this sense you are really there with the patient in an atmosphere of "we'll figure this out and go through it together." You convey hope and warmth. You will be terrific. You have an aura around you that feels safe.”

 

“It’s really your eyes and your presence. . . I think it's connected to compassion, but it comes out of you not just in your words or work, but a palpable presence.”  

         

Workshop Participant

 “Your face comes to mind often when I am in one of my moods where I’m being unkind to myself and a voice comes up that says, 'be gentle with yourself. Be kind to this magnificent woman.'  I see your eyes and I see the compassion that comes from them and I 'remember' to be present and real in my gentleness, to stop the self-hatred and stop the sabotaging personality from making me miserable.”

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