Your unique issues require tailor-made solutions.
Professional psychotherapist Susan Leventhal equips individuals, couples, families, businesses, and schools with tools designed to overcome the unique challenges they face.
Individual Therapy
Whether you are looking to overcome a personal crisis, navigate a time of change, or simply be your best self, Susan is here to help. She takes a whole-person approach to therapy, gaining an understanding of not only who you are as a person, but the dynamics affecting your life. This approach uncovers creative, compassionate ways to help you address your unique issues.
Susan can help you with:
Anxiety, including social anxiety and work anxiety
Depression
Grief
End of relationship
Career transition
Divorce
Caregiver burnout
Marital Therapy
Every couple faces its challenges. Susan’s approach is to explore not only your dynamic as a couple, but the aspects of your life that impact that dynamic. This allows her to not only uncover the root causes of your issues, but to provide you with a framework tailored to your specific needs to address them. Whether she’s helping you strengthen your bond, or helping you find a way to amicably part, Susan is there to guide you through the best solution for you both.
Susan can help a couple with:
Divorce
Mediation if a couple isn’t speaking
Seeing if a couple is suited for marriage
Blended families
Issues faced by inter-married couples
Issues faced by inter-faith couples
Issues unique to LGBTQ couples
Therapy for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
Susan’s background in social work and family therapy has given her a strong foundation to provide psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and young adults. People have different capacities for change, and Susan works closely with young people to address their issues while being sensitive to their limitations. Frequently, when working with children, in an effort to provide the best support possible, Susan not only works with the child, but, when appropriate, in conjunction with their family and school.
Susan can help children, adolescents, and young adults with:
Depression
Social anxiety
Performance anxiety related to school
Relationship anxiety
Transitioning into adolescence
Transitioning from high school to university/college
Business Consulting
A successful business requires healthy people. Susan’s training in therapy and mediation allows her to look beyond the business, and examine the root issues affecting the people within it. Susan will provide you with creative solutions that address your real issues.
Executive Coaching
Susan’s in-depth psychological approach provides insights and strategies beyond regular career coaching. She’ll counsel you through how to handle the various personalities you’ll meet in your journey to the next step in your career.
Team Building
Susan manages team-building workshops to improve and strengthen your team.
Team Dynamic Development
No matter who is on your team or what their personality, Susan can help your team members navigate the myriad of complex issues affecting them. This will allow them to optimize their performance as a team.
Succession Planning
Whenever it comes time to pass management on to new leaders, you want to make that transition as seamless as possible. Susan can guide all the people involved to ease this transition. If you’re a business, whether you’re family-owned and/or privately-owned, Susan can either prepare you for an eventual transition or guide you through a transition as it’s happening. If you’re an accountant or lawyer assisting your clients in the succession process and have identified a challenging psychological dynamic, Susan can intervene to refocus and realign the intended goals.
Transition Planning
Whether you’re a business facing layoffs and mergers, or an individual looking to change fields, Susan can provide you with the necessary support. For businesses, Susan will help you minimize the negative impact on the business and affected staff. If you’re looking to change fields, Susan can help you identify your skills and counsel you through your growth.
Crisis Management for Schools
Schools face unexpected crises from time to time, such as a tragedy in the community or the death of a student. Susan will work closely with you to create tailor-made plans for both crisis prevention and crisis intervention.
Crisis Prevention
Working with the school, Susan can identify key issues that might affect the students, such as eating disorders and suicidal thoughts. Once these key issues have been identified, Susan will put together policies and procedures, and institute staff training in order to prevent them from becoming serious crises.
Crisis Intervention
Because of Susan's unique approach to strategy and the ethics she upholds as a trained social worker, Susan has been sought by Canada’s leading institutions to deal with major crises.
In the event of a crisis, Susan will design a tailor-made plan based on the nature of the trauma and the needs of the community. She will be available on-site to assess the institutional needs and can provide both individual and group counselling. Depending on the nature of the crisis, Susan has access to a variety of health professionals and, if needed, will call them for support.
Once the crisis has been defused, Susan will debrief the school, including making recommendations for any future support, if required.
Susan Leventhal is a Toronto-based professional psychotherapist who works with individuals, couples, families, schools, and businesses. Susan’s extensive training and experience in individual, marital, and family therapy as well as her background in social work have informed her whole-person approach, where she explores individuals as well as the complex relationships they have with the people around them. This holistic approach allows her to identify the unique issues people are facing, and create tailor-made solutions.
Susan’s goal is to transition you out of therapy by equipping you with the tools you need to face your challenges, tools that are uniquely tailored to your issues and abilities.
Susan is a Registered Social Worker, with a BSW and MSW. She has extensive training in family therapy, marital therapy, mediation, and child and adolescent therapy. For a full list of Susan’s qualifications, please visit her LinkedIn.
Contact SUSAN
If you’re an individual, couple, family, business or school who needs a professional psychotherapist, please get in touch.
Susan’s office is located in Toronto. She also offers therapy over the phone or via teleconference. To set up an appointment, you can call her at 416-972-1911 or email her directly at susan@susanleventhal.com, or fill in the form below.