Suzanne found her passion for anatomy while taking a forensic anthropology course at Kwantlen University.

She took this new found interest and paired it with her desire to help others and enrolled in the 3000-hour program at the West Coast College of Massage Therapy.

She has been practicing as a registered massage therapist since 2008 and truly loves her profession.

Suzanne believes that change starts with patient education. If we teach our clients about their injury and how to avoid further damage, we can prevent a prolonged pain cycle and achieve faster outcomes. The importance and benefits gained by knowledge empowers the client to make their own decisions and create change for themselves in aiding their healing process. This philosophy of care is what excites Suzanne about joining a multidisciplinary clinic, where she can work along side other health care professionals who will help nurture positive outcomes for her clients.

Suzanne’s treatment style incorporates Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Release, General Swedish muscular stripping techniques and therapeutic exercise to help realign muscular dysfunction and decrease tension and pain. She accommodates her depth of pressure for each individual need, and believes massage therapy should incorporate relaxation techniques to fully benefit from hands on work.

Suzanne’s approach is guided by her extensive anatomy training including a full cadaver dissection of the human body. This post grad course really helped in understanding how to access certain structures and to see how interconnected the human body really is. Suzanne also spent 2 years teaching as a clinical instructor at CDI college from 2016-2018. She truly enjoys helping students understand the importance of professionalism while guiding their manual skills to the ability of helping others. It has also helped keep her up to date education wise.

When Suzanne isn’t at work she enjoys challenging herself in experiencing new things. Some of her most favourite adventures include traveling the world as far as Australia, Europe, Costa Rica, and Tahiti while her craziest adventure involved jumping out of an airplane. Her most challenging adventure was learning how to swim in 5 weeks to compete in a Tri-it distance Triathlon where she surpassed her goal of top 5 and became 2nd female finisher. Suzanne has participated in Olympic distance Triathlons and has completed 6 half marathon running races, one of which she did while 30wks pregnant! Now a mother, her little ones keeps her quite busy and is currently only working part time.

She is determined in nature and strives to succeed in all areas of life including working with you in your health care journey

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