Creating Connections to Improve Treatments

Have you ever noticed how your connection with a client impacts their treatment session? What happens when you don’t connect with a client?

In today’s episode Lynn talks with Susannah Haarmann about the importance of creating connections with your clients.

Our current medical model is very top down. We, as providers, are supposed to know what to do and our clients just have to receive the guidance we are providing. In truth, our sessions are more effective when we walk beside our clients and help them be an active participant in their care. By working together, we help the nervous system stay in an optimal response which helps with healing.

Susannah’s tips to connect with clients and improve treatments: realize treatments are not a checklist, but require a connection to a person who has a nervous system, describe what you are going to do before you do it and continually ask for consent, give the client autonomy and control (they are doing this for themselves no for you).

Susannah’s advice for practitioners: know your boundaries, create rituals between clients, take care of yourself not just your clients 

Susannah Haarmann will be joining us for the 2025 Birth Healing Summit! She will be talking about the nervous system. The Birth Healing Summit will take place April 7 - 18, 2025.

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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER

Susannah Haarmann, PT, WCS, CLT specializes in pelvic health treatment. She is a certified lymphedema therapist and an international leader in advancing rehab care for patients with  cancer. In 2013 Susannah entered the ranks of ABPTS Women’s Clinical Specialists in 2013; an honor of which only 333 licensed physical therapists hold in the United States as of 2016.

Susannah is a faculty member for the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute teaching continuing education courses nationally to medical practitioners on the topics of pelvic dysfunction and rehabilitation during and after breast cancer treatment. She is the creator of the 2-day course “Rehabilitation for the Breast Cancer Patient" which she teaches internationally.

Susannah is the writer and artistic renderer for the Your Core PT book series which provides easy access to patient handouts and clinical reference tools for patients and practitioners. 

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