Hello there!

Welcome to Caldera Psychotherapy, the private practice of Susan Poznyansky, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.

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I received my master’s degree at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City. I utilize a trauma-informed, strengths-based perspective to provide client-oriented, evidence-based therapy and case management. Most recently I completed Level 1 training in Internal Family Systems which I combine with a long history of practicing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Based Therapy. 

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I started my career as the founder and director of an early childhood program in Portland, Ore., focusing on social-emotional learning. Later, I realized my passion for social work in Seattle working with mothers in recovery from substance use disorders. After graduate school, I worked as a clinical counselor in a residential substance use recovery program in Manhattan, and then as a psychotherapist at a Brooklyn community mental health clinic serving individuals and their families with managing mild-severe mental health diagnoses, suicide risk, life-stage transitions, grief, and other life stressors. I am deeply grateful for the clinical training I received in New York. When I returned to the Pacific Northwest, I worked in a rural hospital supporting individuals and families adjusting to chronic health conditions and navigating long-term care options and in the emergency department assessing for severe acute symptoms, risk, and safety- supporting individuals in active crisis with getting the appropriate level of care. 

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For funzies, I enjoy swimming, fishing, hiking, kayaking, Tai Chi, foraging and gardening. I'm also a big fan of Marvel movies.