When I met Suzana, I was very reluctantly looking for a new therapist as my former very dear therapist had retired. I was very unwilling to connect with her and was definitely an arrogant pest at our first meeting! I am very glad she decided to take me on as a client and give me a chance.
I was very lost and at the very initial stages of starting to heal from CPTSD when I started seeing Suzana. I knew that internal family systems was what was going to work in the long run for me, but I was very unwell and could not fathom how to work on such an abstract concept. I doubt that I would have ever progressed as far I have today in my healing journey if I hadn’t met Suzana. She has expertly set the pace and gently set me on the right path. She knows when I have needed a reality check vs when to let me figure it out at my own pace.
She has been super patient and understanding over the years and slowly but surely guided me at my own pace to start connecting with my inner world. I love that she is not afraid to be real, shares her own journey during sessions and I am often in awe of her strength, fortitude and courage. As an immigrant myself, I feel safe and heard as she has lived experience of the unique challenges we face. It is such a relief and breath of fresh air that I have never found myself in a position of having to explain cultural nuances or queerness to her.
I have faced some extraordinary challenges in the time that she has been my therapist, and she has gone above and beyond to support me through them. She has come with me to meetings to advocate for services that I need. She is always a text away on WhatsApp. She has written support letters for me that have moved me to tears. She is of an exemplary therapist, but moreover she is an exemplary human being.
She is an expert in the domain of internal family systems and keeps up-to-date with new advances in the field. She is in this work because she has a true calling to help people. I cannot recommend her highly enough as a therapist par excellence!
– Miru, New Zealand
I am extremely grateful to have you as my counsellor. Your understanding heart and steady support have carried me through moments when I lost all hope. In every challenge, you stood beside me — listening with compassion, guiding with patience, and gently reminding me to believe in my own strength. Your kindness has been a quiet light in my darkest hours, helping me discover parts of myself I had forgotten or was never aware they exist and bringing me one step closer to healing.
The way you explain things using real-life examples made everything so much easier to understand, and it has helped me apply what I’ve learned to my own life with greater confidence. “If everyone had a counsellor like you, the world would be a softer, kinder place, where no one would be afraid to speak their truth, and no heart would ever feel alone.”
– Gurpreet, New Zealand
I’ve been working with Suzana for the past three years and she has been a powerful influence in my healing journey. She’s supported me every step of the way with patience, love and unwavering encouragement. Her approach is simple, yet incredibly effective. She meets you where you are, using what you already know and understand to guide you toward healing. She often shares examples from her own experience, which helps make the process feel grounded and achievable.
Suzana is generous, kind and deeply knowledgeable. Through our work together, I’ve learned how to love and believe in myself more fully. She’s taught me practical techniques to regulate my nervous system and connect with my core self. She has truly become one of the biggest sources of support in my life. I’m so grateful for her presence and I honestly wouldn’t be where I am today without her.
– Akshara, New Zealand
After 30 years of talk therapy, and a desperate search for therapy for my daughter, and not feeling much hope, I found Suzana, just down the road. A true miracle. “Mum, she gets it. I don’t have to explain everything” my daughter enthused. “You should go.” And so I did. And I discovered so much about myself, about what was wrong, about the ravages of trauma, inter-generational trauma, family systems of trauma and stuck ways of being.
Things finally started to change. Things made sense. Logic and patterns emerged. Hope emerged. Suzana is so quick-minded, direct, intuitive, experienced. She gets it. Its working. I’m so grateful I found her, for my daughter and I. A life-saver.
– Jayne, New Zealand
Today, an app I use to encourage small daily tasks asked me what I was grateful for — my answer was Suzana. I’ve seen many therapists in my life, but I’ve never met someone as real, open, honest, and safe to share with. Suzana is genuinely passionate about her work, and it shows in the way she cares deeply about guiding people toward self-worth. It never feels like she’s reading a script or passing judgment — instead, she meets me where I am with authenticity and compassion. The work is not easy, but with Suzana’s guidance I’ve made more progress than I ever thought possible. I feel incredibly lucky that our paths crossed when they did.
– Erin, New Zealand
I first came to Suzana seeking help to manage my emotions and stress after a traumatic event. I was spiralling and didn’t know where to begin in my healing journey but when I found Suzana she jumped in and began helping me, in what felt to me like effortless confidence. She didn’t just help me to unpack what had happened but actually started at the root of my emotions, using both holistic and biological information to help me understand how my brain and emotions operate.
Learning about my emotional systems not only enabled me to understand why I felt the way it did, but also to accept my feelings. She helped me to understand myself. I have been working with Suzana for three years now. I feel I have overcome the event that first brought me to Suzana and since we have been working on emotional growth, a goal that Suzana helped me to set. She has been encouraging, firm, patient, warm, has always understood me and never judged my feelings or actions even when I did.
Suzana has guided me to understand my different emotional parts and how they work, including my coping mechanisms, and above all has helped me understand that all of this is natural. She has given me the tools and encouragement to be able to begin helping and healing myself. Through my work with Suzana I have begun to accept my emotional parts and grow.
– Dania, New Zealand
I have never worked with a Counsellor or health professional until Suzana who truely understood complex trauma/ptsd, undiagnosed/untreated adults on the spectrum learning to cope & navigate with this alone & the failure of the medical system. She went over & beyond for me & gave me hope.
I didn’t know who I was, I was alone & lost, had no belief in myself, had no value, I was sad, alone & anxious with no self esteem or confidence. Through work with Suzana I started to explore my thoughts & feelings through internal family systems & changed my attitude & beliefs in a positive direction.
She’s the only person who gave me hope so I’m indebted to her for life. Her wisdom & guidance has been a gift & blessing & feel so lucky to have found her. I have seen my share of Counsellors & none of them hold a candle to Suzana’s skill & personal style. She has an amazing gift & her mark on the world is a truly beautiful one.
– Alex, New Zealand
Having Suzana as my therapist was the luckiest thing that could have happened to me. I was at a point where my life could have gone in two very different directions. I need to talk to someone who wasn’t just going to parrot back what I had said to them in different words, and Suzana was the perfect person due to her openness to try things from many different perspectives, and embrace the ugly.
– Isla, New Zealand