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FACULTY Bios - Susan Obrecht LCSW

Susan Obrecht, L.C.S.W. received her B.A. from John Hopkins University and M.S.W. from Columbia University. She is a Training Analyst, Supervisor and Faculty at Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she also serves as Co-Director of Admissions for the Five Year Program in Psychoanalysis. Susan teaches Manhattan Institute's course, on Classical and Interpersonal Approaches to Dreams, and has taught at the Fifth Avenue Center for Counseling and NYU's Faculty Staff Assistance
Program.

Susan Specializes in working with artists and Writers and has presented papers and workshops on maintaining therapeutic continuity with traveling actors; auditions as
triggers to emotional eating disorders; the uses of 'optimal anxiety' in the creative process; addressing the re-enactment of childhood traumas within an acting studio;
and exploring procrastination and writer's block.

Susan also works with individuals and couples struggling with infertility and was cited in The Couples' Guide to In Vitro Fertilization, by Liza Charlesworth (DeCapo, 2004). Susan has a private practice in Greenwich Village.