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Shelton is a Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and has been in Private Practice as a Therapist for the past thirty-four years. He is an Advanced Clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy and an Imago Workshop Presenter for Couples and Singles trained and certified by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.

While Shelton has studied in many theories (Shelton has extensive training in Gestalt and Transactional Analysis and is a certified director of Psychodrama) he both loves and highly recommends Imago Relationship Therapy and uses it extensively in his work.

He has worked extensively with couples in intimate relationships and with individuals recovering from the loss of intimacy and now specializes in relationship therapy and bringing people into connection.
He founded and is the director of The Seattle Institute for Relationship Therapy.



Susie is an accomplished Psychotherapist with a Private Practice in Perth, Western Australia who brings to her work an extensive range of skills and experience and on-going training both in Australia and overseas.
She is a certified Advanced Clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy for Couples and Singles and a Couples Workshop Presenter.

Susie has a distinctive style that is a synthesis of her varied and extensive training experiences: she blends the methods of Imago Relationship Therapy, Voice Dialogue, Hakomi Body centred Psychotherapy, Inner Child and Family-of-Origin Work, Deep Process Work, Family Constellation Work, Energy Work, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Sand Tray, and a pot pourri of many other precious resources and tools: Body Dialogue, Visualisation and Guided Imagery, Movement, Journaling, Ritual, Art, Music and Drama.

Susie works with individuals, couples and families.

An experienced Group Facilitator, she conducts a variety of groups, courses, workshops and Retreats. and is well known for her Inner Child Work and Women’s Retreats and “Intensives” (deep processing residential workshops for either couples or groups).

Another area of speciality is relationship healing after affairs

Susie is committed to providing/teaching practical user-friendly communication tools and processes that lead to deep healing and connection, and love and intimacy.

RELEVANT Skills/Interests

  • Excellent presenter— seen as a combining deep connection, intelligence, passion, creativity, acceptance, sensitivity, nurturing and inspiration. Experienced as offering presentations that are really interesting, innovative, understandable, impactful and transforming.
  • Writer of regular articles on relationships and personal growth for an Australia wide holistic paper. For some of the  current articles see www.livingnow.com.au archives. Please also refer to our Articles page.
  • Founded, organized and was the inaugural Chairperson of Imago Australia - AIRTA (Association of Imago Relationship Therapists, Australia Inc) www.imagoaustralia.org and has represented Australia at International Imago gatherings several times.
  • Regularly organizing/sponsoring a variety of personal development trainings and workshops into Australia of international presenters.
  • Clinical Supervisor — assisted on Clinical Trainings and supervised students and trainees in Imago Relationship Therapy. 

  • Excellent international networker - Susie loves putting people in touch with the infinite possibilities that surround us.
  • Has a deep love for life-long learning believing humans are basically relational and our deepest healing is done relationally. Has a strong commitment to group work and has facilitated a wide range of types of groups.

 

  • Shelton and Susie have been in a committed loving partnership since early 2001 after meeting at the October 2000 Imago Conference in Detroit, Michigan. They use the tools they teach.
  • They are members of the Imago Global Committee whose mission is to create a new model for marriage and to transform the world one relationship at a time. They are committed to decreasing the divorce rate and educating everyone on how to be in a relationship.  
  • They attended the first Imago World Summit in New Mexico, USA in April 2003 and have participated most years since then. The Imago Summit is an annual gathering of Imago therapists and educators from around the world who come together to explore how to expand and develop conscious relationships and families worldwide. Imago is practiced in more than 28 countries by over 2000 therapists

As experienced relationship counselors and educators they provide a wide variety of workshops, courses, trainings, supervision & private counselling sessions.  With homes and practices both in Perth and Seattle they specialize in working with couples, individuals, families, and groups as well as relationships and communication in the workplace.

For many years they were the only Workshop Presenters teaching the Imago work in Australia and they present the Couples, Singles/Individuals and Parenting Workshops. They also teach in Seattle and Vancouver and have taught in Austria and in August 2005 taught the first Couples Workshop in Chennai, India.


"Never doubt that a small, committed group of thoughtful individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

Private Counselling Sessions and INTENSIVES:
Shelton and Susie are available for private counselling sessions by appointment. They offer sessions face to face in the cities they are visiting as well as phone counselling. They are also willing to travel to the locale of the client.

"My partner and I have been taking part in Imago Dialogue process over the phone for the past couple of months with Susie. I am normally someone who feels uncomfortable about speaking on the phone for more than a few minutes, so I was therefore very sceptical about the efficacy of doing something as charged and intimate as relationship counselling over the phone. I have however been amazed at how powerful and effective these sessions with Susie have been.

Most striking is Susie's unfailing attention to what is being said and its significance.

She brings an extraordinary quality of sheer presence to these intense and intimate conversations. Apart from that, I feel that she is unusually skilful as a therapist, knowing exactly how much to allow us to follow our thoughts & feelings and exactly when and how to intervene.

As people who have both had substantial previous experience of psychotherapy, my partner and I are finding the whole Imago process very effective. The key seems to be to be able to work together, using the Imago process to move us quickly into unprecedentedly deep parts of our psyches.
I can wholeheartedly recommend Susie and the Imago Dialogue process to anyone who wants to have a more real, more alive and more intimate relationship."

A, Melbourne.

Please ring or email for bookings or to discuss this further.

We enthusiastically encourage doing INTENSIVES -                       Intensives are an opportunity to work on personal and/or professional areas of growth where you process for an extended period of time over a one or two day period. Intensives are especially ideal where there are geographic and/or time constraints that do not allow meeting on a regular basis. These can be done with either Susie or Shelton facilitating or with both of us together.

If you have a particular issue or a reoccurring problem in your relationship, family or work that needs some deep attention or you want some one-on-one focused attention to extend the learning and processing from the workshops we recommend doing Intensives. People are achieving deep results processing this way especially if the session is done with your partner or your family.

In our opinion our relationships are the deepest and most profound path

for personal growth, healing and transformation.

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive,
And then go do that.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Harold Thurman Whitman


Shelton Huettig, M.A., Marriage and Family Therapist
4221 34th Ave S, Seattle, WA. 98118. U.S.A.
Tel: (0011 1) 206 325-6167
email: shuettig@aol.com

Susie Itzstein, B.A., Psychotherapist/Educator
Warm Fuzzy Hill, 50 Traylen Rd,
Stoneville 6081. Western Australia.
Tel: +61(8) 9295 2328
Mobile: 0414 771 741
email: susie@graduate.uwa.edu.au

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