Susan Pease Gadoua, LCSW
Psychotherapist & Best-selling Author
In 2000, Susan founded the Transition Institute of Marin, and she developed an entire agency dedicated to helping men and women take care of their emotions when their relationship was in turmoil.
In just a few years, the organization grew to the point where it needed a broader reach. Today, The Changing Marriage Institute has a national, and indeed international, audience. Susan also began changing the focus from almost exclusively on the divorce transition toward all kinds of relationship concerns, including alternative ways of coupling.
There still exists today a great deal of shame for those who are not following the "traditional, one-size-fits-all" marriage paradigm. The goal of much of Susan's work is to turn that around by helping people let go of shame and get on the other side of the pain.
One of the most popular alternative marriages is one that Susan stumbled upon where parents who might otherwise split, can stay for the kids by taking romance off the table. Susan coined the term, “Parenting Marriage,” and it is now a concept that is known throughout the world. Susan has trained dozens of therapists in this divorce alternative. Visit parentingmarriage.com for more information.
Susan in the Media
As an author of several books and articles on marriage and divorce, Susan is sought-after expert by media outlets. Here are some of the outlets where you can find her.
Susan writes a regular column for PsychologyToday.com.
The list of media where Susan has appeared include:
Television:
The View From the Bay, October 2008 on Contemplating Divorce
Canada’s The Social and The Morning Show
Newspapers:
Magazines:
Numerous radio shows in the U.S. (West Coast Live), Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and more.
About Susan
As a child of divorced parents, Susan knows first-hand how disruptive an unhappy marriage and subsequent marital dissolution can be. When her mother and father split in 1981 (on their 28th wedding anniversary), marriage counseling was unheard of and emotional divorce support virtually nonexistent.
Susan's personal experience, combined with years of working with couples in distress – both in striving to save their marriage or transition out of it – led her to become passionate about offering support to people at perhaps one of the most crucial junctures in their lives.
Susan has written four books:
Susan’s education:
Susan attended Drew University (Class of ‘83) graduatiing with her B.A. in Psychology and minoring in Sociology
and Spanish.
She had a bi-coastal graduate school experience primarily attending N.Y.U. School of Social Work and finishing her studies at San Francisco State University ‘93
Additional schooling
She attended the Coaches Training Institute which enables her to provide coaching to those out of state, took extensive training to become a Collaborative Divorce Coach and is a Certified Mediator.
Susan spends some of her professional time as a guide and mentor to therapists who want to learn more about the latest marriage trends as well as helping therapists learn how to support clients who are at some stage of the divorce process. Click the button below if you're a fellow therapist and you'd like to learn more about Susan's work.
Click the link below if you'd like to talk with Susan about your marriage or divorce status.
