Lisa M. Sussman, PSYD

Lisa Sussman, PsyD is a clinical psychologist licensed in NJ. She has over 25 years of experience working in outpatient and inpatient medical, integrative, and behavioral health settings such as a burn unit, spinal cord, cardiac, and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, a musculoskeletal clinic, and hospital-based behavioral and integrative health centers. Dr. Sussman earned her doctorate and masters degrees at Florida Tech and completed her internship at the East Orange VA. She is certified in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which combines using acupressure from Eastern Medicine with traditional psychology interventions. She has also trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and Nutritional & Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals.

In 2005, Dr. Sussman joined Meridian Health in their hospital-based outpatient behavioral health center, where she met individually with adult clients, facilitated groups for people coping with chronic pain and medical conditions & anxiety management skills, and supervised psychology doctoral interns. She transitioned to the then new HMH Integrative Health & Medicine program in 2016. Her passion is to help people connect with their inner wisdom and outer resources and learn skills to take great care of themselves and thrive in body, mind, community, and spirit. She works with her patients on a short-term basis using an 8 visit episode of care which is patient centered and trauma-informed. She incorporates several modalities, depending on her patient’s needs, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia, mindfulness, positive psychology, EFT, grief work, and other cognitive-somatic interventions. Dr. Sussman guides people in learning skills which not only help them adjust to their medical status and process losses, improve quality of life and change their mindset, but to shift into and maintain a lifestyle which promotes positive mind-body change, healing, and wellness.