| Office: |
ADDing Solutions
Susan Ross, LICSW
1400 112th Ave SW Suite 100
Bellevue, WA 98004
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| Phone: |
(206) 335-8467
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| Fax: |
(206) 567-5320
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| Cell Phone: |
(206) 335-8467
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| E-mail: |
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| Web Site: |
www.susanross.com
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| Profession: |
Clinical Social Worker/Therapist
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| Services: |
Psychotherapy/Counseling
Coaching
Court Ordered Evaluations
Psychological Evaluations
EMDR sessions
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| Practice Description: |
I work from a direct and interactive approach. I focus on the clients capabilities to create the changes he/she desires. My therapeutic style combines cognitive/reality therapy with interpretive and supportive communication and coaching, when indicated. I offer EMDR sessions, as well. I often use specific and concrete assignments to provide the client with discoveries and experiences that demonstrate that their previous self-concepts and beliefs, which were once useful, although self-inhibiting, are now unnecessary and discard-able. The most essential element of therapy is to provide the client an experience of safety, acceptance, familiarity and ease, and an opportunity to operate from his/her essential self, within the boundaries of a therapeutic relationship. The goal is to provide behavioral and emotional maps designed to enhance the client’s functioning in all aspects of his/her life. My clients appreciate my honest and direct style. I am intuitive and have had many years experience with issues often considered difficult to discuss: sexuality, addictions, adolescent concerns and behavior. I am very funny and an associative thinker and can come up with analogies, metaphors and images to soften difficult issues and approaches. My background in improvisational theater adds to my facility as a quick-thinker. I am also a writer, and have ADHD and those work in tandem for me to be able to remember every detail of someone’s “story” and make connections, leaps and interpretations with ease. My ADHD also serves me: when I am getting bored often the client is willing to talk but not take action, and I hear the same things repeatedly without any steps for change. I willingly share my intuitions, feelings, and experiences when I think they are clinically indicated. My practice is unique, distinct and different because of my preference for adolescents and clients who are often seen as ‘messy or difficult’ because of dual diagnoses and addictions.. I am told by adolescents that ‘you are the first adult to tell me the truth,’ and “you don’t seem to be like other adults.” I take these comments as indicators of my honesty and my ability to listen and embrace the issues and concerns brought to me by adolescents. No topic is off-limits and they know that.
go to my website (www.susuanross.com) for in-depth information regarding my treatment approach and experience
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Practice Specialties or Interests:
(Strengths are
in bold text) |
Crisis/Trauma
Learning Disabilities
ADHD
Alcoholism
Bipolar Disorder
Dually Diagnosed Individuals
Parenting Issues
I use literary and visual arts with teens
play therapy/visual arts/literary arts with children
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| Age Specialties: |
Children
Adolescents
Adults
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| Session Formats: |
Individual
Family
EMDR sessions are 90 minutes
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| Treatment Approaches: |
Cognitive/Cognitive-Behavioral
Developmental
EMDR
Experiential
Object Relations
Play Therapy
Psychoeducational
Psychosocial
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| Demographic Specialties: |
African American
Jewish
People with Disabilities
Women/Feminist
I am comfortable with clients from all demographic groups
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| Education: |
BA Psychology, Drama
Pitzer College, 1975
MSW, Clinical program
University of Michigan, School of Social Work, 1977
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| License #: |
LW00008671 |
| License State: |
Washington |
| Additional Licenses/ Certifications: |
ACSW
LICSW, State of Washington
PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER |
| Professional Affiliations: |
 | NASW-ACSW | | CHADD | | NATIONAL ADHD DIRECTORY | | EMDRIA | | ADDA |
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| Fee Schedule: |
Initial interview: $175.00
Sessions (50 minute): $125.00
EMDR sessions (90 minute) $175.00
Psychological and court-ordered evaluation fees are based on the specific evaluation requirements, level of service and time |
| Accepted Insurance: |
DO NOT ACCEPT INSURANCE PLANS AS STATED ABOVE
will submit invoice w/diagnosis to you for your submission to insurance pro
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| Insurance and Billing Instructions: |
I do not use insurance because i do not want to compromise the confidentiality of my clients nor do I want an outside organization which is motivated by limiting funds and uneducated in the needs and services of psychotherapy, to dictate protocol. The measure for them of a job well done is to limit sessions and financial aid. this approach is antithetical to offering services where the client and therapist determine goals, therapeutic interventions, outcomes and time for termination. I don't want my clients to have a paper trail on their personal lives nor an outside party involved in their decisions. I will provide invoices with a diagnosis, upon request for individual submissions to insurance providers. |
| Office Hours: |
weekday afternoons and evenings, occasionally weekends |
| Driving Directions: |
Directions to office
Driving Directions: From 1-90 East or West, take the Bellevue Way exit and continue in the right-hand lane to the intersection of Bellevue Way and 112th. Go right onto 112th. The first driveway on the right, into the Bellefield Office Park, leads over a small bridge to a stop sign. At the stop sign, go left; the first building on the left, the CAREAGE BUILDING is the building my office is located within. Inside the front door, go to the left; the second door on the left leads to my waiting room.
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