Erengo Suto, LMFT, ATR, SEP

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, board registered Art Therapist and hold a certificate as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I currently serve as an assistant for Somatic Experiencing International’s SE trainings.

Throughout my 16 year career in mental health I have been focused on supporting individuals to work through trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, loss and to increase their overall wellbeing. I started my career working in community mental health working with children and families. My work there focused largely on processing and resolving trauma related symptoms. At the tenth annual Childhood Grief and Traumatic loss conference, I presented on Utilizing art therapy within a Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy framework.

I spent 8 years working on a comprehensive DBT unit and served as the DBT Clinical Lead. During my time there, I took part in a research study looking at the efficacy of inpatient DBT treatment that was published in the Journal of Clinical and Community Medicine, https://lupinepublishers.com/clinical-community-medicine/pdf/JCCM.MS.ID.000187.pdf .

I have additionally worked with individuals to support their recovery from substances and overcome their addiction. I lead IOP groups specific to addiction treatment and DBT groups.

I am a first generation Hungarian American immigrant and have experienced first hand the difficulties in resolving identity conflicts and the challenges when differing levels of acculturation exist within a family. It is hard to find your ground at times when you feel as though you are straddled between two worlds. My graduate research focused on bicultural identity development. The findings of my research were presented at the American Art Therapy Association Annual Conference held in Seattle, Washington.

Through my varied training and experience I have come to an approach that combines traditional evidenced based treatments with image and sensation exploration to be able to abstract the meaning, latent belief systems and energy that can keep us stuck. We will work together to bring more balance in both your internal and external world, to increase your confidence and over all well being. Some of the work we do together may involve practical skills that can improve your ability to cope with intense emotions that may be coming up and other work may involve discovering and tracking energy and emotions within the body that may be holding you back from being able to make changes. My goal is to help your brain and body feel more aligned and less at odds with one another. To find ways to not only tell yourself to feel better but to actually experience relief from painful emotions or paralyzing numbness.