About Susan
Therapy Style & Philosophy
With over two decades of experience as a mental health therapist, Susan offers a compassionate and holistic approach to emotional healing and inner transformation. Her approach is gentle yet empowering, creating a safe space for those navigating trauma, grief, stress, chronic illness, or life transitions.
Susan specializes in mindfulness-based therapy, somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, and emotional resilience. She meets each client with empathy, presence, and respect, helping them reconnect to their own inner wisdom and access peace and clarity while facing daily life challenges.
Personally, and having overcome years of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and self-doubt, Susan brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her sessions.
Background and Credentials
Susan has been working as a therapist since 2001. Her work is rooted in psychology, transpersonal and person-focused therapy, and mind-body medicine, supported by a master’s degree in counseling from McGill University and PhD-level training in integrative health from the University of Calgary. She worked for over ten years as a psychologist in Alberta, including the University of Calgary counselling center, an Alberta Health Services adult clinic in Calgary, and in a private practice before stepping back to pursue some nonprofit volunteering abroad.
Susan has also published several articles in peer reviewed international journals in the areas of child and adolescent mental health, and integrative health.
Susan’s Story
Having grown up near Ottawa, and living in four provinces, I can now happily call Calgary my home city for over two decades. During down time, I love listening to music, singing, meditating, reading, spending time with my children, painting, exercising, and taking walks in the sunshine.
I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to join with Tina and the team at Nurtured Learning.
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