Susan Hall's craniosacral therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on therapy designed to support and activate the body's innate healing capacities. Susan, a 1992 ITP alum, gently and deeply utilizes very subtle palpation skills to find and release tension and imbalances at their source. This is helpful in releasing tension and restriction in the physical tissues, fluid body and energetic flows. It is a very effective therapy for all kinds of pain, autonomic disorders, anxiety, and many other forms of chronic and acute imbalance and disease. CST is typically deeply relaxing and rejuvenating at core levels within the body.

CST and SomatoEmotional Release (SER) have been Susan's primary focus and passion for the past six years. Through her work in private practice with infants, children, adults and seniors she finds that she is able to use her Craniosacral skills to help people access their powerful innate ability to heal, sometimes even in the face of seemingly impossible odds. This work offers her the opportunity to synthesize her backgrounds in counseling and transpersonal psychology, various types of bodywork, visceral manipulation studies, and her own spiritual, mental and emotional journey into an approach to health that effectively bridges the conscious and nonconscious, the power of touch and intention with the innate wisdom of the body.

Her professional training began with a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, followed by 10 years of study and private practice as a bodyworker using Jin Shin Do, massage, acupressure, and Reiki. In 1999 Susan began her studies in Craniosacral therapy with the Upledger Institute and has completed advanced training with Dr. John Upledger at his clinic in Florida. For the past several years she has been working as an Upledger Teaching Assistant and is currently a ShareCare instructor for the Institute as well as an instructor at the Body Therapy Center in Palo Alto. She values the process of teaching Craniosacral therapy as a vital opportunity to disseminate this wonderful work to a larger group of people than is possible within the scope of a private practice.