The truth is,
we all long for connection & belonging.
Welcome
Licensed Clinical Therapist (LCSW)
Certified Perinatal Mental Health Counselor (PMH-C)
Trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)
Master’s degree in social work from Loyola University Chicago.
Rebuild Connection. Restore Trust. Rekindle Love.
Susie Ortega, LCSW, is a Relational Therapist trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT). Drawing from both her clinical expertise and personal journey through relationship loss and healing, Susie offers couples a second chance to mend emotional wounds and rediscover connection.
Facing the tough conversations isn't easy—but it’s essential. By addressing the roots of disconnection and dismantling shame, Susie helps couples move from feeling stuck and resentful to feeling safe, seen, and securely bonded again.
Whether you're attending sessions as a couple or on your own, Susie honors your courage to lean into vulnerability and do the meaningful work of healing.
Because we truly are better, together.
Specialties
Couples Therapy
Perinatal Mental Health
Premarital Counseling
Intersecting Identities
Raising Bicultural Children
Breaking Intergenerational Trauma
Betrayal Trauma
Addiction
Grief & Traumatic Loss
Inner Child Healing
Your body holds your story—and deserves to heal, too.
In partnership with a clinician specializing in Hypopressives, Yoga, Core & Pelvic Floor recovery, and Fisiomyoga, I now offer a holistic space where emotional healing meets physical restoration.
Deep core, pelvic floor, and diastasis recti workouts. Yoga and functional training tailored to each woman and her state of life.
Gloria
My approach combines mindful movement and body awareness to promote safe, injury-free practice. Through intentional techniques, we awaken the mind-body connection, fostering sustainable, long-term results.
“When [they] realized that loss, abandonment, rejection, and betrayal were guiding [them] home, [they] stopped trying to rewrite the chapters of pain and allowed a story of empowerment to begin.”
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples?
“Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a well-known humanistic approach to psychotherapy formulated in the 1980’s and developed in tandem with the science of adult attachment, a profound developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships. This science has expanded our understanding of individual dysfunction and health as well as the nature of love relationships and family bonds. Attachment views human beings as innately relational, social and wired for intimate bonding with others. The EFT model prioritizes emotion and emotional regulation as the key organizing agents in individual experience and key relationship interactions.”
- The International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
“We must recognize that we are more than ‘homo sapiens’. We are ‘homo vinculum’ -the one who bonds with others. And these bonds are what will save us. They always have.”