Susan Prouty is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate at our Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic. Before joining Aviva Health, she served as a special education teacher for children with academic and behavioral health needs and with those experiencing traumatic life events. She also has extensive experience working with children with disabilities and with those in need of social/emotional management.

She is passionate about working with children and adolescents, using a client-centered, trauma-informed lens. She uses motivational interviewing, dialectical behavioral therapy, and Aggression Replacement Therapy (A.R.T. is a multimodal program containing three components: social skills, anger control training, and moral reasoning). Other therapy models are used as needed, depending on the unique needs of her patients.

Susan grew up in rural northern California and moved to Oregon in 2006. She received her bachelor’s degree in 2013, a master’s in counseling in 2015, and a master’s in special education in 2017, all from Grand Canyon University, where she also completed an add-on certificate course in trauma-informed care in 2017.

Susan has been married to her husband for 40 years, and together, they have raised five boys. When not working, Susan and her husband enjoy visiting with family, photography, taking the dogs to the beach, and caring for their horses. They also ride motorcycles and love to attend car shows.