Licensed in California as both clinical psychologist PSY13876 and marriage family therapist MFT25181, Paul R. Sussman PhD runs a couples- and relationship-focused practice at 3101 Fourth Ave in Hillcrest's 92103. As a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist trained in Harville Hendrix's model, Dr. Sussman works with couples whose premarital and conflict issues overlap the couples-therapy caseload at The Relationship Place nearby. An eight-year U.S. Navy career included co-authoring the Navy's Sexual Abuse Treatment Manual and treating service members affected by sexual assault and domestic violence. The practice also runs ongoing psychotherapy groups for men who were sexually abused as children, with gay and bisexual male participants sometimes routed through the community referral pipeline at The San Diego LGBT Community Center. Dr. Sussman holds a faculty appointment at Alliant International University's California School of Professional Psychology and conducts sessions in both English and Spanish. Long-term mixed group and individual therapy for adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse, combining Imago, somatic-relational, and psychodynamic methods, represents the practice's most complex clinical work.