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Jeffrey A. Suiter, Psy.D.
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However, his most salient professional role is providing thought-provoking and sensory engaging professional trainings to individuals and groups of community-based professionals that may have limited access to traditional higher education resources.
A native Detroiter, anchored in a Pro-Black consciousness, Dr. Suiter has primarily spent his professional life and clinical training, seeking opportunities and experiences to expand his self-reflective and thinking capacities, always practicing from a place of “there is this and there is more.” After several years of providing homelessness and HIV/AIDS services in Detroit, DC, and Boston, Dr. Suiter earned a Bachelor of Science in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University, where his concertation was on traditional healing practices, somatic movement and narrative therapy. Dr. Suiter has over the past few years positioned himself to attend to public health blind spots, program development and evaluation, mentoring, in-depth systems analysis, and providing non-traditional clinical trainings and professional development that incorporates at its core “the self in service of the other.”
A native Detroiter, anchored in a Pro-Black consciousness, Dr. Suiter has primarily spent his professional life and clinical training, seeking opportunities and experiences to expand his self-reflective and thinking capacities, always practicing from a place of “there is this and there is more.” After several years of providing homelessness and HIV/AIDS services in Detroit, DC, and Boston, Dr. Suiter earned a Bachelor of Science in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University, where his concertation was on traditional healing practices, somatic movement and narrative therapy. Dr. Suiter has over the past few years positioned himself to attend to public health blind spots, program development and evaluation, mentoring, in-depth systems analysis, and providing non-traditional clinical trainings and professional development that incorporates at its core “the self in service of the other.”
How I work...
“What is the fundamental thing that I am after? … What is my point? … What is it that I really want? … In the fulfillment of myself, this thing will follow… the thing to which (you are) devoted– its quality, its character, its dimension– these things begin to invade (you) and (you) become not merely like the thing that (you) seek but (you) become one with the thing that (you) seek.” Howard Thurman
- I am a man of faith…I believe in my clients, even when they struggle to believe in themselves.
- I believe in a “good enough relationship” … I have no mandate or agenda.
- I believe that my client's reality matters, and this is a place for me to pour love, kindness, admiration, trust and much more into.
- Listening and transparency is CRITICAL… You will never find yourself wondering what I think or believe…
- I believe in naming the thing and taking risks of being wrong. My reality is mine alone.
- I believe in being of service to the other…
- I believe that concluding is doing harm…
- I believe my role is to always be present by being an “relating other/safe harbor.”
- I believe permanent or meaningful solutions involve acknowledgement, validation, admiration, celebration and much more.
- I believe in being consistent, reliable and predictive.
- Lastly, “I will fight for you, even if that means I have to push you.”
- I provide online Individual Therapy for Adults 18+, Teens & Children 12+, online Couples Therapy, and online Family Therapy
