Anxiety - Trauma - Perimenopause
Telehealth for Georgia Women
Susan Spissman, LPC, NPT, CMHNCS
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Online therapy for women who are tired of holding it all together
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You don't need more information about yourself...
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You've done the reading, learned the coping skills, and spent plenty of time trying to figure yourself out. Yet, when stress hits, you still find yourself overthinking, shutting down, reacting in ways you don't want to, or feeling like you're never truly off duty.
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Therapy can help you work beyond understanding your patterns to begin changing how you experience and respond to them. Individualized therapy plans for anxiety, trauma, and perimenopause-related emotional challenges, using evidenced based modalities.
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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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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
