About

Susan Warren Warshow, LCSW, LMFT is the founder of the Dynamic Emotion Focused Therapy Institute (DEFT), which began its three-tier training program in January, 2012. She is a member of the faculty of the ISTDP Institute, and a Certified IEDTA Teacher/Supervisor. Ms. Warshow has presented at the National Association of Social Workers annual conference, at several IEDTA biennial international conferences and has been a featured speaker for local chapters of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. She has been a guest lecturer at California State University Northridge, California Graduate Institute, Los Angeles County Psychological Association and California School of Professional Psychology. Susan has a private practice in Woodland Hills, CA, treating individuals and couples and specializes in anxiety, depression, relationship issues and personality disorders.

She has published five articles in the Ad Hoc Bulletin, an international journal of the Dutch Association for Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (the VKDP) on the following subjects:

1) Treatment of a self-defiling, recovering alcoholic with an avoidant personality. Volume 6, Number 1, September 2002

2) “Even Strangers Loved Me Better.” Treatment of a severely fragile, traumatized patient. Volume 7, Number 1, April 2003, P.5.

3) “The Suicidal Baby: Kangaroo Dreams Reveal a Haunted Childhood .” Using STDP in dream work with a highly anxious patient. Volume 8, Number 2 , July 2004, P. 5.

4) “Slaying the Serpent of Shame.” Treatment of a chronically depressed, anxious patient. Volume 11, Number 3 December 2007, Page 6.

5) “The Impact of Hope in Defeating Resistance.” Treatment of a chronically depressed and defeated man. September, 2010.