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Online therapy for women who are tired of holding it all together
Stop working so hard to just feel okay. Move beyond insight into implementation for lasting change.
Anxiety - Trauma - Perimenopause
Telehealth for Georgia Women
Susan Spissman, LPC, NPT, CMHNCS
You don't need more information about yourself...
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You've read the books, done the research, and tried to understand why you do the things you do. You know you don't need to be perfect. You know you can't control everything. You may even understand exactly where these patterns began.
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So why is it still so hard to change?
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Maybe your mind never switches off. You second-guess decisions, take on more than you have room for, or feel guilty when you're not being productive. Maybe you hold yourself to standards you'd never expect of anyone else. Even when you know better, stress seems to pull you right back into familiar patterns.
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You don't need another list of things to work on or more pressure to get yourself together.
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In therapy, we'll connect the patterns beneath the anxiety and perfectionism to develop a more positive relationship with yourself, your emotions, and the demands of everyday life.
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Using trauma-focused and somatic approaches, we'll move beyond simply talking about what you understand and work toward meaningful change you can experience in your day-to-day life.
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You are a whole person, not a collection of issues...
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Think of a tree — the whole tree, not just the part you see.
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The seed represents early experiences that shape what you believe about yourself. As the tree grows, those beliefs take root beneath the surface: I’m not enough. I have to be perfect. My needs don’t matter. I have to handle everything myself.
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The trunk, branches, and fruit represent how those beliefs show up in everyday life — through anxiety, people-pleasing, anger, perfectionism, overthinking, and relationship patterns.
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Many approaches focus on managing these visible patterns through coping skills, changing thoughts, or regulating emotions. Those tools can help, but when the underlying beliefs remain unchanged, the same patterns may continue to resurface.
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My approach focuses on the roots, not just the fruit/symptoms. Using EMDR, somatic therapy, and bioenergetic therapy, we work with the experiences, emotions, and subconscious beliefs that shape how you respond to life today. Rather than simply trying to think differently, we work toward helping your brain and body process what they've learned so new responses become possible.
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Extended 75-minute sessions give us the space to work more deeply with these patterns — not just manage them, but begin changing what's driving them.
 What brings you in today?
ANXIETY
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Anxiety can feel like you’re never completely off duty. Your mind keeps scanning and preparing for what might go wrong. You replay conversations, worrying about what you should have done differently, or jumping ahead to everything that could happen next; thoughts constantly racing. Even when life is going well, it can be hard to fully relax because some part of you is waiting for the other shoe to drop. You may look calm on the outside while feeling tense, restless, overwhelmed, or exhausted on the inside—like your brain and body are constantly bracing for the next thing to go wrong.
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TRAUMA
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Trauma can show up in everyday moments, long after the danger is gone. You may find yourself reacting more strongly than you want to, shutting down when things feel overwhelming, staying on guard, or feeling disconnected from yourself or the people around you. Sometimes you know logically that you’re safe, but your body doesn’t seem to believe it. You may avoid certain situations, struggle to trust, or wonder why something that “shouldn’t be a big deal” affects you so deeply. It can feel like a part of you is still responding to something that happened then, even while you’re trying to live in the here and now.
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PERIMENOPAUSE
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Perimenopause can feel like your body has quietly changed the rules without telling you. You may wake up tired even after a full night’s sleep, feel more irritable or emotional than usual, struggle to focus, or suddenly find your body responding differently to food, exercise, stress, and sleep. Your periods may become unpredictable, your temperature may seem to have a mind of its own, and you may look in the mirror wondering when your body started feeling unfamiliar. It can be frustrating to feel like you’re doing the same things you’ve always done—yet somehow, they’re no longer working the same way.
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 Methods to Bridge the Gap
EMDR is a brain-based, structured therapy that helps neural pathways to reprocess beliefs, emotions, and/or events to reduce the emotional distress attached to those elements.
A holistic approach considers the whole person, rather than focusing on an individual symptom. It considers the broader context and how different factors may influence one another.
Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach that combines traditional talk therapy with physical techniques to help release stress, tension, and trauma stored in the body.
Susan Spissman
After a few years of practicing traditional talk therapy I realized it was only a piece of the healing puzzle. In my own journey I had spent 20+ years in and out of therapy - talking about the same things and getting nowhere. It wasn't until I experienced EMDR that I began to feel a difference.
Because of that experience, I learned to think outside the box. Therapy with me is NOT a "one-size-fits-all" approach. I now incorporate multiple evidence-based modalities, depending on what the client needs: EMDR, neuroscience, nutrition/fasting practice, holistic/somatic experiencing, mindfulness/guided imagery, and more.Â