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All About

Move With Mountains

Suzanne Mueller is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (LCMHC, BC-DMT) based in Rutland, Vermont. She is dedicated to helping individuals, families, and communities bridge the connection between emotional experience and authentic self-expression through embodied and relational therapeutic work.

Suzanne specializes in working with children ages 3–18 and adults who have experienced childhood relational trauma. Her approach supports clients in developing emotional regulation, self-trust, and healthy attachment through developmentally attuned, trauma-informed care. At this time, she does not provide counseling services for active substance use disorders.

Healing and self-development are not meant to happen in isolation. Suzanne founded Move With Mountains to create spaces where individuals and communities can explore emotions safely and collaboratively. Her work integrates evidence-based expressive therapies, including Dance/Movement Therapy, Art and Expressive Arts, Play Therapy, relational approaches, and mindfulness-based practices.

The name Move With Mountains reflects a core belief: stress, pain, worry, anger, and sadness are inherent parts of being human. When we avoid or deny these experiences, we may begin to mistrust our internal world. When we learn to move with them, rather than against them, we cultivate resilience, self-trust, and healthy boundaries.

Moving with becomes a relational practice — with ourselves and with others. It supports flexibility, creativity, and deeper interpersonal connection. From this foundation, meaningful community can take shape.

Welcome to a space for holistic healing — where the body is honored first, and spirit and mind are integrated in the process of growth.

Training and Education

  • Children & Adolescents (Ages 3–18)

    Suzanne provides developmentally responsive therapy using play, movement, expressive arts, and relational approaches. Treatment supports:

    • Emotional regulation

    • Healthy attachment

    • Self-expression and communication

    • Processing overwhelming experiences

    • Confidence and boundary development

    Caregiver collaboration is integrated when appropriate to strengthen relational safety beyond the therapy room.

    Adults Healing from Childhood Trauma

    Adults who experienced relational trauma may struggle with trust, people-pleasing, anxiety, emotional numbing, perfectionism, or relationship difficulties. These are adaptive survival responses — not character flaws.

    Therapy focuses on:

    • Rebuilding self-trust

    • Regulating the nervous system

    • Establishing healthy boundaries

    • Healing attachment wounds

    • Creating more secure relationships

    Healing relational trauma involves experiencing safety — within oneself and in connection with others.

    Childhood Relational Trauma

    Childhood relational trauma develops when early caregiving relationships are marked by inconsistency, misattunement, neglect, conflict, or chronic stress. Because children learn safety, identity, and emotional regulation within relationships, early disruptions can shape attachment patterns, boundaries, and nervous system responses well into adulthood.

    Relational trauma is often cumulative rather than a single event. Healing begins through safe, attuned connection.

  • Graduated with Master’s of Arts in 2014: Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy

  • Graduated in 2011 with a Bachelors of Science in Dance Education with a Minor in Psychology

  • Licensed Mental Health Clinician in the State of Vermont: #068.0134109

    Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist: #BC-DMT 1306

    Specialized as a Clinical Supervisor in the State of Vermont in 2022-Present

  •  Renewing the Confidence of the Dance/Movement Therapist in Practice:

    Integration of Dance/Movement Therapy Frameworks, Interventions and

    Theory within Non-Dance/Movement Therapy Employment Settings

    * Presented at ADTA Conference 59: Chicago, IL

    October 26, 2024 Becoming the Mountain: Recognizing Movement Within Resistance: DMT

    Support for Chronic, Intergenerational and Persistent Rural Trauma for

    Clinicians and Clients

    * Presented at ADTA Conference 58: Denver, CO

    * November 20, 2023

    * ACE and Trauma

    * Presented at Poultney Elementary School: Poultney, VT

    * March 15, 2018

    * Behavioral Interventions and Mental Health: Kid’s Do Well When They Can

    * Presented at Poultney Elementary School: Poultney, VT

    * October 19, 2017

    * Movement, Energy, Games and Play: Using Movement Interventions with

    Children ages 3-13 to Help Them Develop Healthy Coping Skills

    * Presented at Poultney Elementary School: Poultney, VT

    * February 2017

    * Emotional/Behavioral Disorders and Mental Health Diagnosis

    * Presented at the Behavioral Interventionist Training: Killington

    . Grand, VT

    * August 17, 2016

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