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Integrated Trauma Therapist

Susan Locke

MEd, LAC
Neurodiversity-affirming care for adults navigating trauma, PTSD, ADHD, and the work of becoming more fully themselves.
Susan Locke, MEd, LAC, trauma and ADHD therapist in Scottsdale, AZ
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Care that sees the
whole person.

Susan works with adults whose brains feel busy, braced, exhausted, or difficult to trust. Her approach begins with curiosity rather than correction.

She brings together trauma processing, attachment theory, and an understanding of the brain-body connection to help clients make sense of chronic stress, burnout, ADHD, and neurodivergence.

The work is not about becoming someone new. It is about understanding who you have been all along and building a life that feels more sustainable and authentic.

Susan is a Licensed Associate Counselor (LAC) with the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners and holds a Master of Education in Educational Psychology. She brings over 20 years of experience in behavioral health, case management, and substance abuse counseling.

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“What happened to me, and what does my brain need now?”
ADHD
Complex trauma
PTSD
Neurodivergence
Chronic stress
Burnout
Anxiety
Life transitions
Areas of support

When your brain will not simply cooperate.

Care can begin by understanding what your mind and body have learned to do—not by treating those responses as personal failures.
ADHD and neurodivergence
Explore attention, overwhelm, masking, executive functioning, and self-trust through a lens that honors how your brain works.
Work with experiences that continue to shape your sense of safety, relationships, reactions, and ability to feel present.
Understand the cycles that keep your system on high alert and build a steadier, more sustainable relationship with energy and demand.
Find support through uncertainty, identity shifts, and seasons when familiar ways of coping no longer feel sufficient.
The work

Your brain and body are part of the conversation.

Susan combines trauma-focused and neurodiversity-affirming approaches without forcing every experience into a single framework.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can help the brain process memories and responses that remain vivid, distressing, or stuck.
An IFS-informed lens approaches protective reactions with curiosity and helps build a more compassionate relationship with inner experience.
Attachment patterns offer context for how safety, trust, closeness, and self-protection show up in present-day relationships.
Understanding how the brain and body respond under stress can replace self-blame with useful language, choice, and practical support.
What support can feel like

More understanding. Less self-blame.

Therapy with Susan offers room to slow down and translate patterns that may have felt confusing or contradictory. Insight is paired with attention to what your system can realistically hold.

The aim is not perfect regulation or productivity. It is a more trusting relationship with yourself and a life shaped around what is genuinely sustainable.

01
Understand your patterns in context
02
Build a more sustainable daily life
03
Reconnect with authenticity
04
Strengthen the brain-body relationship
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Curious whether Susan may be the right fit?

Begin with a free consultation, call 480-359-6357, or email Susan directly at susanl@expandinghorizonscounseling.com.
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