Helping Parents Connect More Deeply

with Their Teens

Parenting Teens?

Reconnect with Your Child One Step at a Time

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Practical, everyday strategies to rebuild trust, create emotional safety, and connect with your child where they are.

ABOUT

Meet Dr.Suzanne

Parenting Coach

I’m Dr. Suzanne, a mental health educator and mother who helps parents and teachers strengthen connection, communication, and navigate adolescent complexities through research-backed insights and strategies to meet teens where they are at.

As a mental health and wellness educator in Vancouver, I guide families through modern parenting challenges and support them in managing teenage behaviour.

SPEAKING

Keynotes and Workshops

Being a parenting coach based in Vancouver, I deliver engaging, practical keynotes and workshops, drawing on personal experience, current literature, and research to help adults understand how teens see the world. Through actionable parenting strategies and parenting techniques, I help adults confidently address common parenting challenges around social media, anxiety, and boundaries, leaving with clear tools they can use at home and in the classroom.

Get practical support for parenting teens and tweens.

Testimonials

What People are Saying

Dr. Simpson, the mental health educator, has a clear understanding of the challenging realities in schools, and the need to create positive, safe connections with youths to nurture their learning and empower their personal development. I left wishing that more colleagues and the parent community could hear her speak.

Dr. Suzanne Simpson provided an excellent presentation to my staff on her research findings about what vulnerable students need from educators in order to be successful. She is thoughtful, professional and engaging. We look forward to having her return to share more with our teams.

This is an excellent workshop for educators because Dr. Simpson is a teacher herself who knows what “real” classrooms look like and comes with a realistic, pragmatic and humorous approach to some difficult content.

Suzanne’s session was a deeply transformative experience, with her wealth of knowledge and passion shining through every aspect of her presentation. The blend of research and real-world application made it one of the most valuable professional development experiences I’ve had.

Dr. Suzanne Simpson's research highlights for classroom teachers the importance of supporting student and teacher wellness and mental health; she shares concrete strategies to address the social/emotional needs of students and also ways of taking care of ourselves as educators at the same time.

Podcast

Get on Their Turf

Being a parent of a teenager could be challenging sometimes. Get on Their Turf is a podcast about parenting teens, building trust, and staying connected when it feels hardest. With a focus on effective parenting, each episode brings real conversations, clear insights, advice on teenage behaviour and simple tools for parenting teens and tweens that you can use right away… at the dinner table or on the drive home.