ABOUT
Susan Merli
Meet Susan Merli
Susan Merli is a Registered Psychotherapist providing virtual psychotherapy and counselling services to adults and couples across Ontario.
Her work is grounded in warmth, compassion, emotional insight, reflective practice, and trauma-informed care. Susan supports individuals navigating anxiety, burnout, grief, relationship challenges, workplace stress, emotional overwhelm, trauma, nervous system dysregulation, identity shifts, and major life transitions.
With a unique professional background that includes psychotherapy, executive coaching, leadership development, organizational consulting, mentor coaching, EMDR-informed approaches, trauma-informed hypnotherapy, and couples counselling, Susan brings both psychological depth and practical understanding to her work with clients.
Many of the individuals Susan works with are highly capable professionals, caregivers, leaders, entrepreneurs, and high achievers who may appear successful externally while internally experiencing stress, emotional exhaustion, self-doubt, or disconnection from themselves.
Susan also supports couples seeking to improve communication, deepen emotional understanding, reduce recurring conflict, and strengthen connection. She is Gottman trained and brings a warm, balanced, trauma-informed approach to couples counselling.
Susan believes therapy should feel collaborative, grounded, emotionally safe, and deeply human.
Professional Certification
Specialized Positioning
Susan integrates EMDR-informed approaches and trauma-informed psychotherapy to support clients navigating trauma, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, nervous system dysregulation, burnout, and distressing life experiences.
Her work emphasizes emotional safety, nervous system awareness, reflective practice, and compassionate, evidence-informed care.