Dr. Jane Suh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Virginia and New Jersey. She received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts, with an emphasis in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Dr. Suh completed her Ph.D. in French Literature at Emory University, where her research focused on representations of clinical depression, psychoanalytic theory, and melancholia. In addition to her doctoral work, she completed a two-year program in Psychoanalysis from Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta, Georgia.
Her therapeutic approach integrates trauma-informed care and principles and methods from evidence-based modalities, such as: DBT, CBT, Narrative Therapy, Brief Psychodynamic Therapy, and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. She is a deep and attentive listener who is skilled at helping clients to articulate emotions, discover identities, and find healing and meaning.
Dr. Suh welcomes a wide range of clients, including but not limited to minorities, artists, academics, religious devotees, expats, refugees, veterans, and military families. She specializes in individual therapy for older adolescents and adults facing challenges such as depression, anxiety, chronic stress, intergenerational trauma, PTSD, career issues, relationship problems, family conflict, grief and loss, moral injury, addiction, and compassion fatigue in caretakers.
