Sue Cook RSW

Sue Cook

Founder and Clinical Director of Family TLC

Sue Cook founded Family TLC after beginning her career as a Child and Youth Care Worker in the 1980s and later expanding her work to include individuals and families. Those experiences shaped her belief that effective counselling begins with understanding the person and what is happening in their life before making assumptions about what they need.

That belief in compassionate curiosity became an important part of how Family TLC approaches counselling.

Sue developed the Family TLC Method, a five-phase counselling process designed to bring greater structure, clarity and direction to counselling while still allowing the work to be personalized to each person.

She also developed Family TLC’s Alliance-Centred Therapist training, which focuses on strengthening the skills therapists use to build, maintain, monitor and repair the therapeutic relationship.

Today, Sue continues to shape Family TLC’s counselling philosophy, therapist development and standards of care.

Sue is a Registered Social Worker and holds a Master’s degree in Education Counselling, a Bachelor of First Nations Studies and a Diploma in Child and Youth Care.

Credentials:

  • Masters in Education Counselling
  • Bachelor of First Nations Studies
  • Diploma in Child and Youth Care
  • Registered Social Worker
  • Certified Canadian Counsellor
  • Play Therapy
  • Interdisciplinary Collaborative
  • Level I, Atlanta, 2005
  • Collaborative Level II, Toronto 2005
  • Family Divorce Mediation,
  • Northwestern University, 2005

Positions:

  • Past President of Collaborative Practice Simcoe County, 2005 to 2011
  • Present Collaborative Practice Simcoe County Board Member
  • Ontario Collaborative Law Federation Past Board Director
  • BNI Business Matters Chapter Past President
  • Member of WON – Women’s Owners Network
  • Member of The Divorce Team and presented at the IACP in Chicago, San Antonio, Vancouver, Washington DC,
  • Taught Collaborative Level 1 and 2, Advance Skills training in Oshawa, North York, and Barrie