Peace in your own skin is possible.
I provide a safe place for adults across the lifespan to openly express and explore how they eat and move impacts their self and body esteem.
You deserve to be empowered. You can embrace your authentic self through a positive connection between food, movement and your body.
If feeding yourself is complicated and stressful, and you are uncomfortable in your body, Heartspace Counseling offers help at the heart of the matter.
It’s time to heal the relationship between food and your body.
Whether you’re an individual who is actively working on improving your food/body relationships or a mental health professional seeking to help others reach peace within their own bodies, there is help and support.
Virtual Counseling Group
Do you use food to manage life’s stresses?
Do you feel uncomfortable in your body?
Do you want to change how you feed and relate to yourself and your body?
Heartspace Counseling offers weekly group therapy for individuals who experience a complicated and/or negative relationship with food and their bodies. You don’t have to identify with a full-blown Eating Disorder to benefit from what this group has to offer!
Meets: Wednesdays, 5-6:30 pm MDT online.
Fee: $30.90 credit card/session.
Reduced fee available for select situations
Clinician Mentorships Available
Are you a clinician interested in deepening a holistic food/body mental health understanding in your work?
Through my mentorship, you can find:
Confidence in addressing this very personal issue through traditional training and exploring personal food/body relationships.
Encouragement and support in raising awareness around negative mental health consequences inherent in Disordered Eating and Eating Disorders (DE/ED).
A progressive, hands-on mentorship plan tailored to individual, fluid learning goals.
Honesty and transparency in my own healing process and first-hand experience as a counselor in agency & private practice settings.
Community
Outreach
How I advocate:
Provider resource for the National Eating Disorder Association; Ambassador of the National Alliance for Eating Disorders.
How I bring awareness to mental health and food/body issues:
Collaborate with providers across the state of SD in disordered eating/eating disorders awareness & service provision.
Conduct a six-week workshop, Minding Your Food and Body Workshop at the YMCA, Rapid City, SD: September 6-October 11, 2024
Register: https://operations.daxko.com/programs/redirector.aspx?cid=5145&pid=53073&sid=1271990
Make referrals to clinicians I mentor.
Collaborate with weight-inclusive registered dieticians.
I am available to:
Speak to groups & school groups about DE/ED and food/body mental health; provide workshops for continuing education for Licensed Professional Counselors and Social Workers
“Through the support, education and self awareness that occurs during group my relationship with food and body has changed. The shame I felt about my body and relationship with food that trapped me in a bad space, has moved to feelings of acceptance and peace, something I never thought possible.”
- MC
“My mentorship with Susan has led me to feel more authentic, confident, compassionate, and equipped as a human being, as well as a new mental health counselor working on specializing in food and body work. Susan tailors her approach to support me in highlighting and reflecting on the lingering blind spots in my personal food, mind, and body relationship, as well as provides me with education and wisdom to best support my clients in an area of mental health that is underserved, under-recognized, under-trained.” -TC
I am Susan Lorenzen
I am personally invested in guiding you toward a holistic, positive relationship with food and your body because I’ve been there.
Throughout the majority of my life, I grappled with disordered eating, particularly as a binge eater. My relationship with food and how I treated my body met the criteria for an Eating Disorder on multiple occasions.
At the age of 14, I became aware that something was amiss in my eating habits and the overwhelming desire to continue consuming. I harbored significant shame regarding my body and appearance.
For nearly 5 decades, I found myself entangled in the web of diet culture seeking the unattainable thin ideal. Over the past 7 years, I’ve dedicated myself to healing the connection between food and my body and reaching a state of peace with both.
Now, at 67 and I am mostly retired from my role as a licensed mental health therapist. I achieved my recovery by accumulating over 110 hours of professional training in Eating Disorders, engaged a therapist, a coach and doing the work.
I am driven by a passion to assist others in achieving the same recovery I’ve experienced. In my remaining years as a clinician, I am committed to supporting individuals in overcoming Disordered Eating or Eating Disorders.
