Professional Background

Suzanne Kyra, M.A. is a Registered Clinical Counselor, consultant, international speaker, and a clinical supervisor at Simon Fraser University Psychology Clinic, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She has a private clinical practice with over 30 years experience in the helping profession. She is an international speaker, consultant, and workshop leader. She recently authored a book titled Welcome Home to Yourself: A therapist and photographer explore the meaning of life through individual lenses—a mother and son's journey.

Mission and Passion

Suzanne Kyra's passion and mission is challenging the universality of feeling disconnected. She focuses on how to move from disconnection into connection with yourself and others, and how to move forward in a productive and proactive manner. She views both personal and professional life as equally important in attaining satisfaction and meaningful success. Kyra speaks about life's topics with deep insights gained from her experience and professional training. She provides language on how to speak meaningfully and authentically about everyday ordinary and important experiences, such as how not to panic or go into fear, collapse, or despair. Rather, how to come back to take care of yourself and what is important to you, and how to inspire and connect with the natural resources inside yourself.

Clinical Style

Kyra focuses on the universality of the human condition; everyone has strengths, blind spots, and experiences where life is very difficult. She begins with focusing on the strengths of the individual and on solutions, rather than on the individual's problems. She helps build core strengths to resource clients in addressing their problems and issues. She incorporates a teaching component on how to become self-aware and to trust themselves. The goal is for clients to effectively attend to what is needed, have healthy boundaries, and stay in connection with healthy relationships. Moving from feelings of disconnection, despair, and loss to self-awareness, self-discovery, and connection, is empowering for them.

Kyra helps people make differences in their lives for the better by first making a connection with them. Then she mindfully helps them stir things up in their lives that they need to address, so they can move forward to overcome their fears and make choices to live an empowered, satisfying life.