Susanne grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from Dalhousie University. She completed a Post-Professional Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2015.
In her 24 years of clinical practice she has worked in Toronto, Sydney Australia, and Vancouver prior to returning to Nova Scotia with her family in 2022. Susanne has spent her entire career in private practice and has extensive experience working in the Insurance Industry in both Canada and Australia. She has helped clients in home, community, workplace and clinic settings to regain function following workplace injuries, motor vehicle accidents and long term disability claims.
Susanne has worked with clients with acute, chronic and complex physical, cognitive and psychological injuries. She has a wide range of clinical skills including anxiety management, exposure therapy, behavioural activation, cognitive behavioural therapy, pain management, cognitive rehabilitation; and fatigue management for chronic conditions and post cancer treatment. Susanne has experience completing job demands analyses, ergonomic assessments, physical and cognitive functional capacity evaluations
