Health & Wellness

Health & Wellness Group

Invisible Physical Disabilities from a Brainbased Approach with Suzanne Emery, Good News Community Health Center

Suzanne C. Emery has a Masters in Leadership of Nursing and is a Family Nurse Practitioner.  She is certified as a facilitator of the FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model and is a FASCETS Program Director.  Suzanne lived in Costa Rica for 20 years serving families and children at risk. She worked as resident nurse at a children's home and then as supervisor of health for a large child care organization for 15 years.  Suzanne is the founder and lead facilitator for a project started in 2013 - "Created to be Free: hope for families affected by alcohol."  She leads workshops, provides consulting services, and facilitates family support groups, all in the area of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, using a brain-based approach.  She is a single mother of two wonderful young men; the younger has FASD. She is originally from the Portland area and is now residing here.