Sue believes that happiness is determined less by your external environment and more by your internal world. She seeks to help clients develop agency over their minds and therefore cultivate happiness within their lives. Her specialties include trauma; depression and anxiety; chronic health conditions; and couples therapy. 

‍Trauma: Painful memories can feel like ankle shackles weighing you down and trapping you in the past. It’s not that you don’t want to let go of what happened, it’s that you just… can’t. Sue uses a neuroscientifically-based method to help you process and integrate your negative experiences and therefore move forward in life with a new perspective and sense of freedom. 

‍Depression and anxiety: Numbing sadness can feel like a cold fog permeating your life while stress and anxiety can feel like an electrical current buzzing within your body. Sue aims to assist clients in freeing themselves from their negative thoughts and emotions through a personalized and actionable approach that caters to their unique challenges.

‍Chronic health conditions: Chronic illness, pain, injury, or concussion can feel like being a prisoner in your own body. But while you didn’t choose to experience health issues, you can choose how you meet these challenges. Sue strives to support clients in transforming their relationship with their chronic condition and rediscovering joy and freedom regardless of their current situation.

‍Couples therapy: It’s not you versus your partner - it’s you and your partner versus the problem. Sue endeavors to aid couples in enhancing understanding and compassion, transforming behaviours and communication, nurturing intimacy and friendship, and determining their own path towards happiness and authenticity.Sue’s unique psychotherapeutic method integrates cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and mindfulness with an empowering, skills-based, and customized approach.

She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at Athabasca University and a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. She is currently a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario. Sue connects with her clients through warmth, humour, empathy, and an excitement for personal growth. Clients of all ethnicities, cultures, religions, genders, sexual orientations, and walks of life are welcome.

‍Please note that, while Sue offers occasional online sessions (for example, to accommodate short-term illness or travel), sessions with her are predominantly in person at the Exchange Tower.