Susan Jampel

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Practice Areas: Family Mediation

Susan Jampel, LICSW, MSW (Smith) has worked in the fields of social work and mental health since 1965. She became a mediator in 1997.

Susan began her career working for a variety of service agencies. At the Departments of Child Welfare and then of Corrections in Tennessee, she worked with foster care, adoptions and multi-problem families, then with incarcerated adolescent girls from troubled backgrounds. On moving to Massachusetts in 1969, Susan again worked with adolescent females, in residential treatment at the Protestant Youth Center in Baldwinville, then with children and families at West-Ros-Park Mental Health Center in Hyde Park. During this period she received family therapy training through Boston State Hospital.

In 1975, Susan received her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. After spending the next two years as a clinician on the Inpatient Unit of Faulkner Hospital, she began a private psychotherapy practice which continues to the present. Most recently, Susan has been engaged in volunteer mediation with the Community Dispute Settlement Center in Cambridge.

As a therapist, Susan brings her varied experience to bear in treating individual adults, adolescents, families and groups. As an outgrowth of her early introduction to children’s services, she brings a high level of comfort to the treatment of a broad range of people, settings and diagnoses. In addition to her focus on psychodynamic and systems theory in treating individual adults, adolescents, couples, families and groups, she is interested in working with challenging family situations, such as divorce, custody problems, parent and child issues, learning disabilities and issues of addiction. Susan is particularly skilled at building alliances and facilitating communication.

In the mediation field, Susan's experience includes family issues, tenant issues and divorce. She is committed to the idea of helping divorcing families to maintain a connection whenever possible, and looks forward to working at The Mediation Group with other professional mediators who share that value.