Susan Rook-Thomas is licensed in the state of California as a Marriage Family Therapist. She holds a Masters of Arts from Saint Mary's College of California and a Bachelors of Arts from University of California at Berkeley.
Susan has over eight years of experience doing psychodynamic therapy with adults, adolescents, children, toddlers, families, couples, sibling pairs and therapy groups. As a Certified Domestic Violence Counselor, she has worked on crises phone lines and met at-risk women and children at safe houses and hospitals. She has lead groups for women living in shelters and transitional housing, and she has taught anger management classes for court mandated violent offenders.

Susan has worked with children who suffered from severe physical abuse and neglect. In these cases, she has worked not only with the children but also parents, CPS social workers, lawyers, and representatives of the District Attorney's office.
Additionally, she had five years experience doing Rosen Method Therapeutic Bodywork, a psychosomatic process based on the work of C. G. Jung and the Breath Therapies developing in Germany in the early 1940's. Through this work, Susan saw first hand how traumatic memories are stored in the body and how this can lead to dissociation and diminished aliveness and awareness.

Susan has created art and stories since she was a young child. Her formal training in Philosophy and Practice of Art at UC Berkeley, influences her work with her clients. Susan encourages her child and teen clients to explore visual and tactile means of discovering and communicating. As with her adult clients, she assists them in finding verbal means to express and communicate their awareness and helps them recognize their ability to imagine and to be rational.