Susan Berlin is a psychotherapist, who practices her services in Washington DC. She is an out-of-the-box thinker. Her approach to treatment is based in science and expressed through creativity. Many of todays current treatment models fail to take individual uniqueness into consideration. She takes an approach that is not about homogenizing all people to be the same but rather she encourages her patients to get in touch with their full expression.
Sometimes individuals are going through addiction problems, relationship issues or sexual compulsivity and other sexual issues. Through education, values identification and clarification, goal development, and the application of skills learned in therapy, Susan can assist her clients with the issues they are currently facing.
Her career began two decades ago in 1989 at the Caron Foundation, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program that also specializes in codependency and ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) work . Here, she discovered her passion for helping people.
While establishing her practice, Susan designed and helped implement a dual-focused intensive outpatient drug and alcohol treatment program for Mediplex/United Hospital in New Rochelle, NY. With a desire to grow personally and professionally, she decided to relocate her practice to Georgetown in Washington, DC, where now she counsels individuals, couples and groups varying in age from 17 to adult.
Well respected in her field, Susan Berlin has specialized training in working with people struggling with or recovering from Alcohol use, abuse, dependence and addiction. In July 2009 Susan was chosen as one of "Washington's Best Therapists" for substance abuse and addiction therapy in the Washingtonian Magazine.
Psychotherapy is an art to be practiced and refined, as is life. Susan, "help people discover more of who they are and help them work toward personal goals to make their life more fulfilling."
Her qualifications and Licenses Certifications are impeccable. She is a licensed Clinical Social Worker (licensed in NY, MD and DC), Certified Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor (CASAC), and an Internationally Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (ICADC).
Susan facilitates with genuine concern for her clients individual needs in a therapeutic setting. As a professional, She understands that people need to learn to believe in themselves again, regardless of how hopeless things appear at the time. Her main hope is to help individuals in their time of need.
For more information, go to:
Susan Berlin, LICSW, CASAC
(202) 333-1787
By Appointment only:
The Waterfront Center
1010 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 505
Washington, DC 20007
http://www.sdbpsychotherapy.com
