Suzanne Levy

Dr. Suzanne Levy is a licensed clinical psychologist and training director of the ABFT Training Program at Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions. Previously, she was the training director and a clinical child psychologist at the Center for Family Intervention Science at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Levy is a co-developer of Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT).

ABFT is the only manualized, empirically informed and supported, family therapy model specifically designed to target family and individual processes associated with adolescent suicide and/or depression. Since 2007, Dr. Levy has been conducting ABFT training workshops and supervision for therapists nationally and internationally. She also over sees ABFT treatment in Drexel's Center for Family Intervention Science's clinical trials. She has presented regionally, nationally, and internationally on ABFT, emotion coaching, child and adolescent therapies, resilience, adolescent depression, adolescent development, and adolescent substance use.

Dr. Levy has presented at 100's of workshops, conferences, and invited lectures, as well as in college classrooms. Along with her colleagues, Drs. Guy and Gary Diamond, Dr. Levy has written the ABFT manual, "Attachment-Based Family Therapy for Depressed Adolescents" published by the American Psychological Association.