Susan Costello

Vegan Counselor and Life Coach

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I am an experienced counselor, psychotherapist and life coach offering a comprehensive range of diagnosis-free services designed to foster personal growth in individuals and couples. I have been in private practice for decades. I offer a uniquely engaged and interactive style that clients have found extremely helpful and refreshing. I am results-oriented and solutions–focused. I am a psychotherapist and professional counselor and I hold a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. I received my certification as a professional life coach in 1999 through The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) of San Rafael, CA.

I have special expertise as a relationship and marriage counselor. Relationship counseling, couples counseling and marriage counseling are my specialties.

Please note that my office has been moved from Sherborn, MA to Woodinville, WA and all sessions are conducted over online video or phone as of 2020. Therefore, health and safety, location, weather and traffic are no obstacle to getting expert help.

Exceptional Counseling

• solve marital or couples problems
• feel less depressed or anxious
• move beyond crisis
• heal from old or new hurts or losses
• increase your self-esteem, silence inner critic
• learn to cope with life’s various stresses and difficult circumstances
• develop healthy relationships in all parts of your life
• get guidance, feedback and support
• develop more insight and understanding into yourself

Exceptional Life Coaching

• set and reach goals
• find more fulfillment and passion in your life
• reach your potential
• become more successful and productive
• stop procrastinating
• create a more balanced life
• find your life partner, if single
• live according to what is truly important to you My life coaching services can be conducted on the phone or skype.

Active Counseling & Psychotherapy

Are you “stuck” in any of these feelings?

depressed anxious irritable powerless self-conscious angry resentful guilty sad self-critical empty

While everyone experiences these feelings from time to time, if they are continuous or if they unreasonably interfere with the quality of your life, then maybe it’s time to take action … Maybe it’s time to consult with me. I am the provider that people turn to when others haven’t helped. In fact, my best client is one who has gone to other providers with little to show for it. I am an active, engaged therapist with the accumulated wisdom and experience from literally decades in the field.

I do not just sit there and nod and smile as my clients have told me many other therapists do. That might be enough for some clients but not others. I am an ACTIVE counselor. Many people don’t realize that seeing a counselor doesn’t merely mean talking to someone who will just be nice and listen. Our work is collaborative and a two way discussion. Not all therapists are alike!

I offer a uniquely interactive style that really helps. I work with people’s strengths, teach life skills and useful concrete tools, and help clients find solutions to their problems. I offer guidance and insight. I always use a potent blend of my life coaching and counseling skills for maximum effectiveness. I am empathetic and compassionate but also results-oriented. I am both a counselor and a life coach and use various skills with all. You will find counseling with me to be a different experience.

I provide confidential active counseling and psychotherapy to individual adults, 18 years and up. I do not work with children. I am a self-pay therapist/life coach so for that very reason, I am able to offer diagnosis-free confidential help that keeps the insurance companies out of your business.

I specialize in relationship problems. My relationship counseling sessions for INDIVIDUALS can help effectively to:

• Make relationship decisions
• Heal from or survive infidelity in a relationship
• Break patterns of involvement in unhealthy or unsatisfying relationships
• Learn how to have intimate, reciprocal, constructive relationships
• Conquer fears of commitment, entrapment, vulnerability or intimacy
• Leave a particular relationship, if appropriate
• Heal from the ending of a significant relationship
• Identify what clients want in a mate and coach them to reach that goal

Couples Counseling

Nothing is more painful than when you see your relationship struggling and you don’t know what to do about it!

Let me help you by providing marriage or couples coaching. I am a relationship expert.

• Is your relationship satisfying?
• Does it make you feel good about yourself?
• Is there a lack of connection?
• Poor communication?
• Chronic resentment?
• Frequent conflict?
• Infidelity?

I am a professional counselor and psychotherapist and relationship coach with decades of experience. I specialize in relationship counseling and coaching, which includes couples counseling and marriage counseling.

Life Coaching

What is Life Coaching?

Life coaching is a powerful confidential, personalized service that is designed to enhance people’s personal and professional lives. Quite simply, it helps bring you from where you are now to where you want to be. It is designed for people who are doing OK but want to do better! Life coaching really gets you places!
Please be aware that though I offer both life coaching and counseling, they are, in fact, distinct services. Life coaching is not a mental health service and as such, is not reimbursed by health insurance and it has its’ own separate rate structure.

Are you a candidate for life coaching? These are some of the types of goals you may set up that I can help you with:

• creating more satisfaction in all the different parts of life
• less stress
• more passion and motivation
• increased self-confidence
• clarity of goals and vision
• improved organization and productivity
• greater life balance
• ability to see different perspectives and avenues for change and growth
• financial and professional gains

You, too, would benefit from life coaching.

Let’s partner to make your personal and professional life a success. I will help you implement action plans that move you forward, while keeping you focused on your priorities, values and goals. Our alliance will serve to help you break through stuck places and thinking. I will collaborate with you to create a more balanced, successful and fulfilling existence for yourself and “go for the gusto” in your life. And, very importantly, I will facilitate your self-discovery and perpetual learning.

I specialize in confidence coaching!

“”Oh, the places you’d go …”” working with your own supportive, non-judgmental, challenging life coach whose only agenda is your success and fulfillment as you define it.