Susanne McAllister
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Author, therapist and founder guiding high-achieving women beyond anxiety
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About Susanne McAllister
For many high-functioning, heart-centred women, anxiety isn’t always loud — it’s quiet, persistent, and woven into their everyday lives. It hides behind packed calendars, polished smiles, and the constant push to hold everything (and everyone) together.
But under the surface? There’s exhaustion. Emotional fatigue. Burnout. And a deep longing to finally exhale.
Susanne McAllister understands this intimately.
As a trauma-informed therapist, mentor, and woman who has walked through her own chapters of anxiety, burnout, reinvention, and identity shifts, she brings both clinical experience and lived wisdom to her work.
Her clients are the women who rarely fall apart — outwardly. They run businesses, raise families, support their communities, and still feel like they’re falling behind. Many are also parenting anxious teens or navigating midlife transitions that leave them feeling unmoored.
Susanne offers them something rare: a safe, grounded space to come home to themselves. Not through pressure or performance — but through presence, compassion, and nervous system-informed support.
Her work is rooted in a unique blend of evidence-based therapy (including EMDR and CBT), somatic practices, nutritional neuroscience, mindfulness, and spiritual connection — woven together to support real women in real life.
Whether it’s through her 1:1 Soul Sisters Program, a deeply personalised 8-week journey, or her Soul Sisters Inner Circle monthly membership — a gentle, supportive community space — Susanne’s work is about creating sustainable, soul-deep healing.
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Susanne McAllister Talking Points
The Hidden Anxiety of High-Functioning Women
From the outside, everything looks fine — the to-do list is managed, the children are cared for, the smile is on. But beneath the surface, many women are quietly overwhelmed, stuck in cycles of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional depletion.
Susanne explores how anxiety often becomes so normalized in high-functioning women that they no longer recognize it for what it is — until the cost becomes unavoidable. Whether it shows up as burnout, chronic fatigue, irritability, or disconnection, anxiety is often the nervous system’s quiet cry for help.
This conversation gently invites women to step off the treadmill of coping and into a new definition of wellbeing — one rooted in nervous system safety, self-trust, and deep inner connection.
Parenting Anxious Teens While Managing Your Own Inner Turmoil
Parenting is already one of life’s most demanding roles — and when a mother is managing her own anxiety while supporting an anxious teen, the emotional load can feel unbearable. Susanne speaks to the often-unspoken reality of this dual struggle, highlighting how anxiety patterns can be passed down generationally — not out of failure, but out of survival.
Drawing from both her clinical expertise and lived experience, Susanne offers insight into how mothers can begin to interrupt the cycle. With practical tools for emotional regulation, compassionate communication, and nervous system support, this conversation offers a path toward healing — for both parent and teen.
It’s for women who are doing their best, but feel like they're falling apart inside — and who are ready to stop carrying it all alone.
Reclaiming Wholeness: A Spiritual and Somatic Approach to Anxiety
We live in a world of constant connection — yet so many women feel deeply disconnected. From their bodies. From their inner wisdom. From each other. And from a sense of something greater.
Susanne offers a powerful reframe: anxiety isn’t just a mental health issue — it’s often a soul-level signal that we’ve become untethered from what truly grounds and nourishes us.
In this conversation, Susanne shares how her holistic approach — blending EMDR, somatic practices, amino acid support, mindfulness, and spiritual mentorship — helps women reconnect with themselves on every level. This is for anyone who’s “tried everything,” but still feels stuck, anxious, or lost.
It’s not about pushing through. It’s about softening into healing — body, mind, and soul.
Why Susanne McAllister?
She speaks directly to a deeply underserved audience: high-functioning women silently struggling with anxiety and burnout.
Susanne gives voice to the women who hold everything together — the carers, the doers, the ones who rarely fall apart on the outside but are quietly overwhelmed within.
Many podcast audiences are filled with high-functioning listeners who may not identify as “anxious,” but live in constant over-responsibility, emotional depletion, and nervous system dysregulation. Susanne meets them with deep compassion and validation, gently naming what they’ve never had words for — and offering a path forward that feels safe, supportive, and sustainable.
She offers integrative, trauma-informed tools that go far deeper than surface-level advice.
While many conversations around anxiety focus on mindset shifts or productivity hacks, Susanne brings a truly holistic approach — blending science-backed therapies like EMDR and amino acid therapy with somatic practices, mindfulness, nutrition, and spiritual grounding.
Her work addresses not just the symptoms, but the root causes of anxiety and burnout, empowering listeners with tools that support healing on every level: physical, emotional, and energetic.
She brings real-life experience — not just credentials — to every conversation.
Susanne doesn’t just teach this work — she’s lived it. Her personal journey through trauma, anxiety, identity shifts, family healing, and spiritual awakening allows her to speak with both vulnerability and authority.
She connects with audiences in a way that feels both grounding and inspiring, weaving personal stories with clinical wisdom to create rich, meaningful conversations that stay with listeners long after the episode ends.
Susanne McAllister Video Showreel
Recommended Podcast Audience
- High-Functioning Professional Women: Corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives silently struggling with anxiety, burnout, and perfectionism.
- Mothers of Anxious Teens: Parents navigating the emotional complexity of raising teenagers, especially daughters, dealing with anxiety.
- Women Exploring Late-in-Life Identity Shifts: Those stepping into LGBTQ+ identity later in life while managing family and career roles.
- Corporate HR & Wellness Leaders: Organizations seeking practical, evidence-based strategies for workplace wellbeing and anxiety management.
- Women Seeking Holistic Healing: Individuals drawn to integrative approaches combining therapy, spirituality, somatic work, and science-backed wellness.
Sample Podcast Questions for Susanne McAllister
- How does anxiety often present differently in high-achieving women compared to other groups?
- What are some of the most common thought patterns that quietly fuel burnout?
- How can mothers support teenagers who are struggling with anxiety without taking on the full emotional burden themselves?
- You talk about amino acid therapy — how does nutrition play a role in emotional wellbeing?
- What led you to develop the Soul Sisters Program and Soul Sisters Membership, and how does it differ from traditional therapy models?
- How did your own Near Death experience, trauma, and anxiety inform the work you do today?
- Can you share your perspective on coming out later in life and how that process intersects with anxiety and identity?
- What role does spirituality or "the divine feminine" play in healing anxiety?
- Why do you believe it's important to integrate body-based work like somatic practices into anxiety treatment?
- For workplaces dealing with stressed and anxious teams, what are some immediate steps leaders can take to support wellbeing?
