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Suzanne Gold BA, MA, Post-graduate studies
Suzanne Gold Quick Facts
Suzanne Gold is a personal counselor and spiritual coach specializing in Surviving a Dysfunctional Family: How to Make Peace with the Past and Create a New Future. Her practice is an interactive, systematic approach to unraveling dysfunctional family patterns and transforming frustration into success in your life and relationships. Its step-by-step method combines spiritual principles, psychological theory, powerful exercises, and practical tips for everyday challenges. It's designed to set you free from longstanding negative programming that interferes with your ability to build a life you love.
Suzanne has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Clinical Psychology from Temple University, and post-graduate studies with Gregory Bateson and Jim Bugental. Her experience as a psychotherapist, spiritual seeker, teacher, intuitive person, spiritual coach, writer, and survivor of a dysfunctional family devastated by mental illness makes her uniquely qualified in this topic. Because of her upbringing, she has a passion for this topic. Because of her upbringing, she has a passion for this topic, and hopes to make a contribution to society as she continues to work with students and clients while untangling her own stuck places by recognizing the spirit that underlies them.
Authors John Bradshaw (Healing The Shame That Binds You), Shakti Gawain (Creative Visualization), and Susan Forward (Toxic Parents) endorse Suzanne's work. She writes a weekly column for United Press International's Religion and Spirituality website, a blog for the San Francisco Chronicle, and has been featured in cover articles in the Marin Independent Journal (CA), and the Pacific Sun (CA), which dubbed her "The Family Fixer." Her stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies, and she has been quoted on LifetimeTV.com.
As a psychologist and therapist, Suzanne worked at Marin Lodge, Woodacre, CA, Westside Lodge, San Francisco, CA, Eagleville (PA) Rehabilitation Center for Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and Philadelphia (PA) State Hospital. She also taught workshops for healing professionals in handling their own reactions to their clients and patients.
She has taught classes in Surviving a Dysfunctional Family at St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA, the College of Marin, the Tamalpais Union High School District Adult Education, and has led workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia, the Pacific Northwest, and British Columbia. She also taught at the Arica Institute in Boston, co-produced an Earth Day 1990 Celebration in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a founding Member of the Earth Day Every Day Fund at the Marin Community Foundation, and of Women Helping All People, a grassroots self-help group in a public housing project near San Francisco where she volunteered in grant-writing, the Food Project and Community Garden.
Suzanne's autobiographical novel, Daddy's Girls, a novel of love, spirit and redemption, won ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards Gold Medal for Fiction in 2001. She co-authored Being Yourself: Twenty-Four Ways to See the Light, which Ram Dass called "A simple and beautiful series of meditation exercises for mind, eye, and heart." Her articles and short stories, essays, and opinions have been published in The Sun Magazine, Chrysalis Reader, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Marin Independent Journal, Wordriot.org, Northern Journeys, Women's Voices, From The Heart, and received an Outstanding Author Award from BookReviewCafe.com.
Currently, Suzanne writes a weekly column for United Press International's Religion and Spirituality website, a blog for the San Francisco Chronicle, and has been featured in cover articles in the Marin Independent Journal (CA), and the Pacific Sun (CA), which dubbed her "The Family Fixer." Her stories and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies, and she has been quoted on LifetimeTV.com.
Her autobiographical novel, Daddy's Girls, a novel of love, spirit and redemption, won ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards Gold Medal for Fiction in 2001. She co-authored Being Yourself: Twenty-Four Ways to See the Light, which Ram Dass called "A simple and beautiful series of meditation exercises for mind, eye, and heart." Her articles and short stories, essays, and opinions have been published in The Sun Magazine, Chrysalis Reader, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Marin Independent Journal, Wordriot.org, Northern Journeys, Women's Voices, From The Heart, and received an Outstanding Author Award from BookReviewCafe.com.
Suzanne is also an award-winning singer and songwriter, and sang the national anthem for the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park, recorded a song she wrote at Lucasfilm's Skywalker Studios; and performed as a vocalist in nightclubs, private and corporate parties.
