SueAnne has been developing Core Self Reclamation Therapy (CSRT), formerly called Fierce Love, for over a decade, and is now teaching the model to a wide range of clinical audiences across the country and around the world.

She has been an invited speaker at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium and the Cape Cod Institute. Her clinical work was featured by the American Psychological Association (APA) as part of their video series featuring renowned psychotherapists doing live demonstrations with real patients.

She is a founding member of the AEDP Institute (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) where she is currently Senior Faculty Emerita.

Currently she is writing a book on CSRT with her partner, Raoul Rosenberg.

SueAnne received her doctorate from Adelphi University, and her master’s degree in human development and psychology from Harvard. She is known for her warm, open, engaging teaching style and her ability to communicate complex topics with humor and clarity. She teaches, supervises, provides individual and group consultation and is in private practice in Nyack, NY.
She is the author of “Fierce Love: Championing the Core Self to Transform Trauma and Pathogenic States (Piliero, 2021)”

Piliero, S. (2021). Fierce Love: Championing the Core Self to Transform Trauma and Pathogenic States. In D. Fosha (Ed.), Undoing Aloneness & the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing AEDP 2.0 (1st ed., pp. 269–293). American Psychological Association.