Suzie earned a degree in Art History from Agnes Scott College. She then received her nursing degree from Emory Univeristy and is a seasoned holistic nurse. Her passion for health and wellness provides an innovative, practical approach that has helped hundreds of her patients. She expanded the domain of traditional nursing in Mississippi by Founding and Directing the Spa at St Dominic Hospital and the Sanctuary Body Spa. She recently Founded Integrative Medicine and Heath Practitioners of Mississippi, a group of like-minded  practitioners that meet once a month. She is an inspired teacher and Healing Touch practitioner that effectively integrates non-traditional viewpoints with scientific awareness that assists her patients in the self care of mind body soul connection. She is married with 4 grown children, 3 grandchildren and 3 dogs.