Susan Carroll Powers, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for more than forty years in New York City and the east end of Long Island. After receiving her doctorate from Fordham University in the Bronx, she studied Gestalt Synergy with Ilana Rubenfeld on a post-doctoral level. She has also been a mentee of Dr. Tian Dayton for over thirty years, learning the methods of psychodrama and experiential therapy.

Dr. Powers specializes in grief counseling and recovery from codependency. For many years she has given workshops for couples and individuals at the Onsite Recovery Center in Tennessee and the Caron Foundation in Pennsylvania, two major codependency treatment centers. In her practice Dr. Powers uses the concepts and tools for grieving that she developed with her clients and has helped many through their losses from addiction and suicide.

Dr. Powers considers herself a spiritual seeker and has studied many different spiritual and humanistic traditions over the years.