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Jeffrey A. Suiter, Psy.D.
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Dr. Suiter has been an adjunct professor and guest lecture at several universities, colleges and national public health organization. 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
- My primary theoretical orientation is informed by rational psychoanalysis and systems approaches.
- My aim is to empower you to actively live your life, unapologetically.
- We can build collaborative therapeutic relationship that provide insight, self-compassion, acceptance, and hope.
- I will work with you to explore your past experiences and help you make sense of your thoughts and emotions.
- Everyone deserves to have the space to find their own solutions so that they can grow and change on their own terms. In order to do that I try to build a space where we focus on your strengths without judgment.
- I will work with you to identify the personal and social realities that help you to build happiness while addressing those that no longer serve you.
- In order to grow and heal in a world where sytematic oppression exists, we must recognize the interactions with people and institutions that work to limit your options, and develop stratagies to overcome these obsticals.
- I will work with you to take ownership of your experiences and to help you write your own story, while navigating the environments that make up your lived experience.
- I provide online Individual Therapy for Adults 18+, Teens & Children 12+, online Couples Therapy, and online Family Therapy
