SUSAN REGAN · SPEAKER · RELATIONSHIP EXPERT · PODCAST GUEST
What happens to us when relationships get emotionally charged?
Susan Regan helps audiences understand the hidden patterns that shape conflict, communication, connection, and the choices we make under relational pressure.
Drawing from decades of work as a relationship therapist, mediator, educator, and podcast host, Susan brings psychological insight into language people can immediately recognize in their own lives.
TWO WAYS TO CONNECT
Speaking, workshops & conversations
Whether you're planning an event or inviting a guest, Susan brings a relational lens to the questions that matter.
Speaking & workshops
Keynotes, interactive workshops, professional meetings, conferences, team events, associations, and community audiences.
Podcast & media guest
Thoughtful interviews about relationships, conflict, emotional patterns, divorce, intimacy, personal growth, and what happens underneath reactions.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
WHO DO YOU BECOME UNDER PRESSURE?
The Hidden Patterns That Shape Conflict, Communication and Leadership
Most conflict isn't only about the disagreement in front of us. Pressure activates familiar ways of protecting ourselves. Some push harder; others withdraw or become defensive, controlling, accommodating, critical, or silent.
These reactions can shape relationships, teams, leadership, decisions, and communication before anyone recognizes what's happening. Susan invites audiences to notice patterns without shame or blame and consider how awareness opens more room for choice.
Possible audience takeaways
- Recognize personal patterns under relational pressure
- Understand what those reactions may be protecting
- Notice how emotional states shape communication and interpretation
- Interrupt automatic conflict cycles
- Respond with clarity rather than simply reacting
- Create conditions for productive connection and conversation
FEATURED EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE
THE COMPOSURE LAB™
Recognize your reaction. Understand what it protects. Choose what happens next.
The Composure Lab takes Susan’s understanding of human behavior out of the therapy room and into everyday life. Informed by her clinical and relational experience, this is a broader public and organizational education framework — not psychotherapy or primarily clinician training.
Recognize your reaction. Understand what it protects. Choose what happens next.
Through speaking, community conversations, and interactive educational experiences, the framework explores emotional reactions, the patterns beneath them, and more intentional responses under relational pressure.
Applications include workplaces, leadership teams, organizations, communities, partnerships, families, and everyday relationships.
FOR COMMUNITY & RELATIONSHIP AUDIENCES
WHY WE KEEP HAVING THE SAME FIGHT
The argument may change. The pattern often doesn't.
Susan explores why couples and families repeat familiar emotional cycles even when everyone wants things to be different.
She looks beneath criticism, withdrawal, defensiveness, anger, and recurring conflict to make sense of what may actually be happening underneath the reaction.
INVITE SUSAN TO YOUR PODCAST
A relationship conversation that goes beneath the surface.
Susan is especially at home in thoughtful, conversational interviews.
As the host of #SoRelatable, Susan understands both sides of the microphone: how to follow an unexpected idea, explain psychological patterns without jargon, and offer listeners something meaningful to reflect on.
Susan speaks about relationships without reducing them to quick tips or telling people what they “should” do.
Why do we react the way we do in the first place?
PODCAST & INTERVIEW IDEAS
Conversation starters
A few directions a host and Susan might explore together.
Why We Keep Having the Same Fight
What recurring conflict may reveal about the relationship underneath it.
Who Do You Become Under Pressure?
How emotional activation changes communication, interpretation, and response.
When You Don't Know Whether to Stay
Why relationship ambivalence is more complicated than “stay or leave.”
Why Insight Doesn't Always Create Change
Why knowing a pattern and interrupting it are two different things.
The Relationship After Divorce
Why separation doesn't necessarily end relational work, especially when children are involved.
Emotional Safety & Intimacy
Why feeling understood can matter before feeling deeply connected.
Rebuilding After Relationship Change
Identity, dating, loneliness, familiar patterns, and a different next chapter.
When Talking Isn't Enough
Experiential relationship approaches, including ketamine-assisted psychotherapy when appropriate.
What are your reactions protecting?
Why defensiveness, withdrawal, anger, and over-functioning often make more sense when we understand what's underneath them.
ABOUT SUSAN
Insightful without sounding clinical.
Honest without telling people what to do.
Susan Regan is a relationship therapist, mediator, educator, and host of the #SoRelatable Podcast.
For decades, Susan has worked with the difficult moments in relationships: recurring conflict, uncertainty, separation, co-parenting, intimacy, rebuilding, and the emotional patterns that shape our responses.
Warm, direct, curious, and human, she invites people beneath visible behavior rather than offering simplistic advice. That same approach shapes her talks, workshops, and interviews.
AUDIENCES
Designed for real human relationships — wherever they happen.
Relational pressure is not limited to romantic partnerships.
Workplaces & leadership teams
Professional associations
Therapists & helping professionals
Conferences & panels
Community & parent groups
Podcasts & interviews
Conflict, triggers, communication patterns, and protective responses arise wherever people work, lead, collaborate, decide, parent, or connect.
VIDEO & MEDIA
See Susan in conversation
Susan-led video or interview footage can help organizers experience her communication style.
SUSAN'S PODCAST
Host of #SoRelatable
Susan talks with therapists, mediators, educators, authors, and other experts about relationships, emotional patterns, change, and connection.
Hosting these discussions has made her an experienced interviewer and a comfortable conversational guest.
LET'S CONNECT
Bring Susan into the conversation.
Planning an event, workshop, podcast episode, panel, or professional conversation? Tell Susan a little about your audience and what you're exploring.
This is a professional inquiry, not a clinical intake. Please do not include private clinical or health information.
Choose the type of inquiry in the form, then share the organization, topic, and timing you have in mind.
Speaking & guest appearance inquiry
Share the essentials and Susan can follow up about your audience, format, and topic.
LET'S EXPLORE
What would be useful for your audience to understand differently?
Susan brings a relationship lens to the moments when people feel stuck, reactive, disconnected, uncertain, or under pressure.
If that conversation belongs in your organization, event, podcast, or community, let's explore it.