Hi, I’m Susan Anderson, a practicing psychotherapist and founder of the Abandonment Recovery Program.
I’ve devoted over 30 years of clinical experience and research to helping victims of abandonment trauma heal heartache, grief and shame and overcome “outer child” patterns of self-sabotage.
I had my own adult abandonment experience when my beloved marital partner of almost 20 years suddenly left me for another woman. I was a fully confident independent professional at the time, but I was devastated.
Psychology had not yet addressed this type of trauma or explained its power to debilitate, and it propelled me into years of intensive research beyond the boundaries of existing treatments to find real answers.