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Helen Suk-Louws
Counseling Intern
Helen earned a Bachelor’s of Social Work from Ryerson University, now Toronto Metropolitan University, in 1987. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at Liberty University.
Helen began her helping career as a social worker within foster care and adoption, as an assistant director of a residential program for women with life controlling problems, counseling in a youth health clinic, and working with children on the autism spectrum. She paused her career to raise her young family, which resulted in homeschooling her children for twenty years. During this time, she also focused on ministry service and mentorship of women and high school/college students. Helen is now returning to the helping field with a passion for helping adults, couples, and families grow toward sustainable change and healing. She has extensive experience working with women of
all ages (teens through mature years).
Helen’s personal experiences of trauma, loss, and grief have further shaped her to be a more understanding, empathic, and supportive counselor. Her scope of counseling practice includes, but is not limited to: trauma, post-traumatic stress, grief and loss, betrayal, shame, couple and family relationships, infertility, foster care and adoption, abuse and neglect, anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation. Helen welcomes the integration of faith and spirituality in the counseling process when it aligns with clients’ preferences.
Helen seeks to engage the whole person in counseling by recognizing each client’s uniqueness and multi-faceted potential for healthy change. She values collaborative counselor-client relationships by walking alongside clients and together navigating restorative healing pathways. Helen integrates various counseling approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, Play Therapy, and Mindfulness.
Music has long been Helen’s love language, whether listening or playing her guitar and singing. She enjoys reading, writing, gardening, hiking, and occasional crafting, but especially enjoys spending time with her family and young grandchildren. She has been married since 1987 and has four adult children.