Susan received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1967, and later went on to become a member of that school’s prestigious graduate faculty where she founded their couple and family therapy graduate program. Since then she has worked with thousands of couples, written eleven books on relationships, and trained hundreds of coaches. Her groundbreaking book, The Couples Journey: Intimacy as a Path to Wholeness, published in 1980, was the first popular book that introduced mainstream audiences to the idea of relationship as spiritual practice.