Professional Summary

Suzanne Marie Petrucci, BS, MSW, LCSW is a Social Work Professional with more than twenty-three (23) years of experience in the state of New Jersey where she is qualified to evaluate, diagnose, and provide mental health treatment to children and adults. Her primary private practice outpatient location is in Woodbury, New Jersey. In response to the pandemic, she began offering telemedicine in April 2020. Her therapeutic approach is primarily oriented to the Cognitive Behavioral Therapeutic model of psychotherapy studied at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine where she received certification in 2002. Suzanne has a unique blend of skill sets that encompass her background working in many different settings including inpatient hospital psychiatric units, in-home settings working with at-risk youth referred by the state, and supporting adults in the community suffering from psycho-affective disorders as well as traumatic stress.

Suzanne is credentialed by the Department of Defense as a Military Family Life Consultant and voluntarily deployed to three military installations between 2011 and 2015. As the owner of a private practice since 1999, Suzanne is most passionate about her interest in forensic Social Work which developed early in her career. Her experience in documenting her clinical findings for legal purposes is a rare passion that brings cases to life in a humanistic manner, written in her own unique style to capture the essence of “what happened”. Trauma is more easily overcome by having a voice and an opportunity to change how the story will end. Cognitive behavioral therapy, in the same way, is a form of therapy that heals through looking at how we assign meaning to events and then providing the opportunity to choose different ways of thinking about events that will lead to better feelings and behavior. Finding the words is the essence of much of her work.