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Please Note
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Online counseling is not appropriate for all kinds of problems.
If you have suicidal thoughts, it's important that you seek help
immediately. You are not alone.
If you are located in the US, call
1-800-784-2433 or
911 and ask for help. If you are outside the US,
look here
to find the support hotline in your country and area.
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Degrees
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B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies; M.Ed. in Community Counseling, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (ID and CO); American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Officer; Certified Interactive Imagery Therapist; Advisory Board of Southern Poverty Law Center; American Counseling Assn.
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My Expert Service
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My work as a professional counselor and psychotherapist has included crisis counseling and consulting with the American Red Cross as a Disaster Mental Health Therapist (including responding to 911 in NY and many other national disasters). I have worked as a human ecologist with stakeholders, refugees, immigrants and international sojourners working in third world countries. In the U.S. I have worked with teams of scientists, agency representatives and experts on development projects that negatively impact people's lives.
For many years I have had a private psychotherapy practice working with individuals, couples, families and doing group therapy. I have worked with addictions with adults and adolescents, sexual abuse, grief and loss, dying and death, culture shock, suicide ideation and depression, and special services counseling for college students and those with disabilities
I consider my experience and perspective to be multi-disciplinay, eclectic and humanistic. I have also lived and worked in many parts of the world and am a cross-cultural and multicultural counselor. I
I am a Certified Interactive Imagery therapist and have facilitated "diversity training" to government and educational organizations.
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Experience & Qualifications
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Prior to returning to graduate school after my children were out of elementary school, I worked as a Creative Dramatics teacher in American International Schools in several developing countries. After my family returned to the U.S. to live (primarily because my daughter had a chronic illness that required better medical treatment) I worked as a counselor in a girl's group home and for an addiction treatment facility in Florida (primarily working in middle and high schools with "at risk" teens doing prevention and early intervention service).
After receiving my Master's degree in counseling and doing my year's internship at a university counseling center working with students who needed "special services", I joined a group counseling practice. At the counseling center I did group therapy and saw individuals and couples seking psychotherapy services. I also was asked to teach as adjunct faculty at the private university where I had done my graduate work. For 5 years I taught Social and Multicultural issues to graduate counseling students and school counselors. I facilitated diversity training to private and government agencies and educational organizations. I held EAP contracts to provide counseling to government and private employees, facilitated group therapy sessions in schools, prisons, group homes and with sexually abused girls and women.
My work changed dramatically when I was asked to begin a consulting practice with an international environmental consulting group. I practiced as a Human Ecologist with displaced people and stakeholders on large development projects worldwide. Project experience included: N. America, Africa, Asia and Mexico. In this work I consulted with individuals and facilitated focus groups, developed public participation, mitigation, and mediation to resolve conflicting issues related to human impacts.
Since September, 2001, I have worked primarily as a Disaster Mental Health therapist and counselor with the American Red Cross, responding to terrorist and natural disasters and their impacts on people's lives. As a result, I now consider myself to be an expert in crisis counseling, grief and loss, emergency services and community liaison.
After 35 years of marriage, I now have direct experience with the pain and confusion of divorce and the loss of personal expectations for my future. In my personal journey back to wholeness, I spent a year working as a horticultural therapist, gardening 10 hours a day in the shadow of the beautiful San Juan mountains in SW Colorado.
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Available Modes Of Communication
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email/chat
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Contact
Susan Hill
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