Susan M. Porter, Ph.D.

For clients who are high functioning and need assistance working through current circumstances or emotional struggles, I provide space within the professional treatment relationship to facilitate the development of inner stability which helps clients effectively recover from difficult emotional material. Whether recent or remote, trauma is something that may be addressed in treatment to help process and resolve the emotional effects of adverse events and experiences. Even if clients are reluctant to discuss traumatic events directly, healing may take place through compassionate, nonjudgemental psychotherapy. This practice provides a level of privacy and confidentiality which is rare in our community, and my level of education, training, expertise and licensure is unparalleled in the Ketchikan area among practitioners in private practice who provide both psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic assessment services. My degrees come from APA accredited AIU/CSPP.