Therapy Practice and Bio
of Susan Heitler, Ph.D.

Read Interview with Dr. Susan Heitler
Instructor's Version of the Angry Couple and CE Course

My colleagues and I, independent practitioners who share an office suite and a common treatment philosophy, welcome therapy inquiries and referrals.  We are located in Denver in the new physicians’ office building at Rose Medical Center.  Our fees range from bargain to high end; please check with the receptionist to arrange a therapist who will work with your payment ability.  

We regard conflicts as lying at the heart of most emotional distress.  Our counseling methods help individuals, couples, and families to address their issues in new ways that lead to their feeling better and enjoying more positive relationships. 

If you would like to learn more about our treatment methods, you can download free articles form this site.  In addition, several of the publications in the Books and Tapes pages of this site could be helpful.  For details of our treatment philosophy, you may want to read my book From Conflict to Resolution. To see how we implement this philosophy, in The Angry Couple video I demonstrate treatment with a couple, played by excellent actors, who are in therapy for marital difficulties, depression, and anger.  Some people say that viewing others’ therapy can be almost as helpful as being in treatment yourself.

The audiotapes illustrate our treatment methods for depression and anxiety. You can read excerpts from these tapes by clicking depression or anxiety, and, below the information about the tapes, clicking More Info on this Selection.

The treatment services we offer include individual therapy, pre-marital counseling, marriage therapy, family therapy, and Power of Two Marriage Skills Workshops. 

Many people ask us whether they should sign up for therapy or for the marriage skills workshops. Power of Two Workshops teach the skills for success in marriage—skills that prove useful in all relationships, with family, friends, and work.  Therapy helps you to apply these skills to the specific trouble spots in your significant relationships.  Many couples find that they benefit from both the workshops and therapy; others do one and then the other; and yet others find that one suffices to help them get back on a loving track.  If you give us a call, we would be glad to discuss a plan tailored to your specific needs. 

If you live outside of the Denver area, and have been experiencing marriage tensions, you may want to consider augmenting your marriage therapy, or work you are doing on your own as a couple to ease the rough spots, with a weekend visit to Denver for a Workshop.  

Therapy usually requires weekly sessions for a period of several months or more.  The personal problems we treat with therapy include depression, anxiety, anger, addictions, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive habits and help with distressing dilemmas.  For relationship difficulties we offer pre-marital counseling, marriage therapy, and counseling prior to divorce.  With families we specialize in helping with parenting challenges.   In addition, we counsel professional athletes on the psychological aspects of their sports performance.

The fees for our services range depending on the therapist.

Please feel welcome to give a call to our secretaries for further information and/or to schedule an appointment.

We would look forward to meeting you.

Sincerely,
Dr. Susan Heitler and colleagues,
Gene Gross, LCSW, www.genepsych.com
Cameron Gridley, Psy.D.
Abigail Hirsch, Ph.D.
Jennifer Sandberg, bilingual Spanish-English psychotherapist

BIO 

Dr. Heitler specializes in treatment of anxiety, depression, and marriage difficulties.  In her clinical practice as a clinical psychologist in Denver, Colorado, Dr. Heitler has been helping individuals and couples for over twenty-five years.  She has written a book, a workbook, and workshops called The Power of Two to help more couples learn the skills that lead to marriage success.  And the theory of treatment she presented in her book for therapists,  From Conflict to Resolution, has strongly influenced the work of many therapists.

Dr. Heitler graduated from Harvard, earned a masters degree in education at Boston University and then a doctorate in psychology from New York University.  She and her husband, married over 30 years, have enjoyed raising four children, now young adults with children of their own.   

Dr. Heitler has lectured on her therapy methods nationwide and abroad, including in Spain, Austria, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Israel and Australia. 

Dr. Heitler is frequently interviewed in magazines such as Fitness, Men’s Health, Women’s World, and Parenting.  Her cases have appeared often in the Ladies Home Journal column “Can This Marriage Be Saved?”

In May, 2004 Dr. Heitler appeared on the CBS Early Show where anchor Harry Smith introduced her as “the most influential person in my life—my therapist.”  He encouraged his viewers similarly to seek therapy when they are emotionally distressed and pre-marital counseling when they are contemplating marriage.