SISUzy Coaching Mission Statement
At SISUzy Coaching, our mission is to empower individuals to discover their true joy, strengthen their resilience, and build the adaptive capacity needed to create meaningful, lasting change.
Dr. Susie Amato-Henderson, Founder and Certified Life Coach, brings both lived experience and professional expertise to her work. After finding her own authentic joy later in life, she now guides clients who may not yet realize what’s missing—or what’s possible. “For years, my ‘normal’ was just normal… until everything fell apart. Only then did I understand that joy was available to me all along.”
SISUzy Coaching exists to show clients that a joyful, grounded, purpose-filled life is within reach. With intentional effort, self-awareness, and the right tools, anyone can transform their patterns, their mindset, and their future.
Susie specializes in helping clients navigate career transitions, clarify their values, shift unhelpful thought patterns, and build both resilience and adaptive capacity—the ability not just to withstand adversity, but to grow stronger because of it. This is the difference between surviving life’s challenges and emerging from them more empowered, confident, and aligned with who you’re meant to be.
Mindfulness, emotional regulation, and body-based stress reduction skills are woven throughout every coaching experience. These foundational practices help clients break old cycles, calm the nervous system, and approach challenges with clarity instead of overwhelm.
At SISUzy Coaching, the goal is simple:
To help every client uncover their joy, strengthen their inner wisdom, and courageously shape a life that feels expansive, authentic, and deeply their own.
My Story & Why I Do This
SISUzy Coaching was born from a moment of clarity—a quiet but powerful realization that life wasn’t meant to feel like constant overwhelm.
For decades, Dr. Susie Amato-Henderson lived what she now calls her “pre-joy” life. Everything looked fine on the outside, but internally she felt disconnected, exhausted, and unsure of how to move toward something better. Like many people, she didn’t recognize that she was missing joy because she had never fully experienced it.
It wasn’t until life unraveled that Susie discovered a deeper truth:
Joy isn’t something that magically appears. It’s something you learn to create, cultivate, and protect.
Through her own journey of rebuilding—supported by decades of expertise in psychology, research, teaching, mindfulness, and coaching—Susie found what she describes as her true calling. She realized that the tools she had spent her career studying and teaching weren’t just concepts; they were lifelines. They helped her regulate her emotions, clarify her values, reshape her mindset, and adapt in ways she never thought possible.
This transformation became the foundation of SISUzy Coaching.
The name itself reflects her mission: Sisu—a Finnish concept capturing strength, resilience, courage, and the ability to continue on even when the path is difficult. Combined with Susie’s unique coaching style, SISUzy Coaching is a place where individuals learn to strengthen their resilience, deepen their adaptive capacity, and build a life rooted in intention and joy.
Today, Susie blends evidence-based strategies, mindfulness practices, emotional regulation tools, and her own lived experience to help clients navigate transitions, break old patterns, and move confidently toward lives they didn’t know they could have.
SISUzy Coaching exists because joy is not a luxury.
It is a birthright—and with the right tools, support, and mindset, anyone can learn to claim it.
