Everyone of us has the ability to overcome the challenges and heartaches that sometimes come up in our lives.  When we are young, we believe this: we know that we can be whatever we want to be when we grow up, that we can fly if we just find a garage high enough, that we can save all of the homeless people and animals of the world.  If our family life and social life is completely supportive and empowering, we continue to feel this way, with perhaps a sprinkling of humility and knowledge of physics thrown in to temper our earlier optimism.  If someone(s) teaches us fear, to hate, to cringe, life can become more about surviving than about spreading our wings and thriving.

Sometimes it seems like survival is all we can manage and that we are "meant" to suffer or to merely survive.  I believe that every human being has the potential to be more, to thrive.  My goal as a therapist is to guide and educate in such a manner that my clients become strong, empowered individuals in healthy and rewarding relationships.  This happens by exploring where and how you came by your current beliefs and behaviors, and choosing which ones you would like to keep and which you would like to change.  In the process, you begin to see and love yourself as you can be, rather than as you have been. I look forward to getting to know you and work with you! Bonnie J. Sullivan, Ph.D. Registered Psychologist, Calgary (Back to Calgary Registered Psychologists List) (Back to More about Dr. Sullivan)