Your unique issues require tailor-made solutions designed specifically to address your individual needs.
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 seeking support to overcome a personal crisis, navigate a significant time of change, or simply strive to be your best self, Susan is here to provide compassionate guidance. She takes a whole-person approach to therapy, carefully gaining a deep understanding of not only who you are as an individual, but also the various dynamics and influences affecting your life. This thoughtful and comprehensive approach uncovers creative, compassionate strategies designed to help you address your unique challenges in a meaningful way.
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 encounters unique challenges at different points in their relationship. Susan’s approach involves exploring not only the dynamic between you as a couple, but also the various aspects of your individual lives that influence and impact that dynamic. This comprehensive understanding allows her to uncover the root causes of your issues more effectively and to provide you with a personalized framework specifically tailored to your distinct needs for addressing them. Whether she is helping you strengthen and deepen your bond or assisting you in finding a respectful and amicable way to part, Susan is committed to guiding you through the best possible solution that works for both of you.
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 extensive background in social work and family therapy has equipped her with a solid foundation to provide effective psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and young adults. Recognizing that individuals have varying capacities for change, Susan collaborates closely with young people to address their challenges while remaining sensitive to their unique limitations. Often, when working with children, in an effort to offer the most comprehensive and supportive care possible, Susan not only focuses on the child but also, when appropriate, works in partnership with their family and school to create a cohesive support system.
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 fundamentally depends on the well-being of its people. Susan’s extensive training in therapy and mediation enables her to look beyond the surface of the business itself and carefully examine the root causes of challenges affecting the individuals within it. With this deep insight, Susan will offer you thoughtful and creative solutions designed to address your true and underlying issues.
Executive Coaching
Susan’s in-depth psychological approach offers valuable insights and effective strategies that go well beyond what typical career coaching provides. She will thoughtfully guide you through understanding and managing the diverse range of personalities you are likely to encounter as you navigate your way toward the next important step in your professional journey.
Team Building
Susan expertly manages team-building workshops designed to improve communication and strengthen the overall cohesion of your team.
Team Dynamic Development
No matter who is on your team or what their individual personalities may be, Susan can help each team member navigate the myriad of complex and challenging issues that affect them personally and professionally. This guidance and support will enable them to better understand and manage these challenges, ultimately allowing them to optimize their overall performance and effectiveness as a cohesive team.
Succession Planning
Whenever it comes time to pass management on to new leaders, you want to make that transition as smooth and seamless as possible to ensure continuity and stability. Susan can provide expert guidance to all the people involved, helping to ease the emotional and practical aspects of this significant change. Whether you are running a family-owned business or a privately-owned company, Susan can either prepare you well in advance for an eventual leadership transition or support you actively as the transition is happening. If you are an accountant or lawyer working alongside your clients during the succession process and you identify a challenging psychological dynamic or interpersonal tension, Susan can step in to intervene effectively, helping to refocus the parties and realign their goals to facilitate a successful outcome.
Transition Planning
Whether you’re a business experiencing layoffs and mergers, or an individual seeking to transition into a new career field, Susan can offer you the essential support and guidance you need. For businesses, Susan will work closely with you to minimize the negative impact on both the organization and the affected employees. If you’re looking to change fields, Susan can assist you in identifying your transferable skills and provide thoughtful counseling to help you navigate and embrace your personal and professional growth.
Crisis Management for Schools
Schools occasionally encounter unforeseen crises, such as a tragedy within the community or the passing of a student. Susan will collaborate closely with you to develop customized plans designed specifically for both crisis prevention and effective crisis intervention.
Crisis Prevention
Working collaboratively with the school, Susan can effectively identify critical issues that may negatively impact the students, including eating disorders and suicidal thoughts. After these important concerns have been recognized, Susan will develop comprehensive policies and procedures and implement targeted staff training programs designed to address and prevent these issues from escalating into serious crises.
Crisis Intervention
Because of Susan's unique and thoughtful approach to strategy, combined with the strong ethical principles she upholds as a trained social worker, she has become highly respected and sought after by Canada’s leading institutions to effectively manage and resolve major crises.
In the event of a crisis, Susan will carefully design a tailor-made plan that is specifically based on the unique nature of the trauma and the particular needs of the affected community. She will be readily available on-site to thoroughly assess the institutional needs and circumstances and is prepared to provide both individual and group counselling sessions. Depending on the specifics and severity of the crisis, Susan has established access to a wide range of health professionals and, if necessary, will promptly call upon these experts to offer additional support and resources.
Once the immediate crisis has been successfully defused, Susan will conduct a thorough debriefing with the school staff, providing a detailed overview of the situation and offering thoughtful recommendations for any necessary future support or intervention, should it be required.
Susan Leventhal is a Toronto-based professional psychotherapist who works closely with individuals, couples, families, schools, and businesses. With extensive training and many years of experience in individual, marital, and family therapy, combined with her strong background in social work, Susan embraces a whole-person approach. She carefully explores not only the individuals themselves but also the complex and dynamic relationships they have with those around them. This comprehensive and holistic perspective enables her to identify the unique challenges people are facing and to create personalized, tailor-made solutions for their specific needs.
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 who holds both a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and a Master of Social Work (MSW). She has received extensive and specialized training in various therapeutic approaches, including family therapy, marital therapy, mediation, as well as child and adolescent therapy. Her comprehensive education and practical experience enable her to effectively support individuals, couples, and families through a wide range of challenges. For a full list of Susan’s qualifications, please visit her LinkedIn.
If you’re an individual, couple, family, business, or school in need of the services of a professional psychotherapist, please feel free to get in touch with Susan. Kindly refrain from using this form to send any marketing materials or promotional offers. Thank you for your understanding.
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 fill in the form below.
