OUR TEAM

Meet Our Team!

Sue Sokol

Executive Director, B.R.E., M.Div.

We are so grateful to have a diverse and experienced team, united by a shared purpose. Explore our staff bios to discover how each member plays a vital role in fulfilling our mission of making NLC a place of help, hope, and healing.

Margarete Overend

Executive Assistant / Office Administrator

Lynn Middleton-Vanderveen

Fundraising & Donor Engagement Manager

Jane Masenda

Part-time Administrative Assistant

Carli Jones

Part-time Administrative Assistant

Carolina Bartholomew

Communications/Media Coordinator & Christian Counsellor, GCert, MTS

Myung Joo Ok

Christian Counsellor, BA., MDiv.

Lucio DiTeodoro

Registered Psychotherapist (RP), Canadian Certified Counsellor (C.C.C.)

Fabio Frigolè

Christian Counsellor, SSW, RSSW

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Niagara Life Centre is supported by a volunteer Board of Directors. They are the ambassadors and overseers of the programs and services that we offer.

Jonathan Brouwer, Board Chair
Jonathan is a Certified Financial Planner with IG Wealth Management and joined the NLC board in 2022. He attended Heritage Christian School in Jordan Station and is currently a member of Vineland Free Reformed Church. Jonathan has previous board experience and enjoys organizing fundraising events. He brings financial expertise to the NLC board.

Ken Klassen, Vice Chair
Professor of Operations Management, Goodman School of Business at Brock University, Ken joined the Niagara Life Centre Board in 2011 and has served for over 10 years. A keen detail person, he has been instrumental in fine tuning both our financials and policies.

Sheryl Bruggeling, Secretary
Sheryl joined the NLC Board of Directors in 2025, bringing valuable experience and a thoughtful perspective to the organization. Her involvement aligns with NLC’s ongoing commitment to impactful leadership and continued growth.

Scott Denbak, Treasurer

Carolyn Lammers, Member

Diane Julius-Williams

Distinctions of Counselling & Psychotherapy

Niagara Life Centre proudly employs a qualified and caring staff whose passion for helping people shines through in everything they do. Our Psychotherapists and Christian Counsellors desire to see people positively impacted through NLC and for clients to experience help, hope, and healing. Distinctions of Christian Counselling and Psychotherapy are as follows:

Psychotherapy

Registered Psychotherapists (RP) are engaged in Niagara Life Centre ministry work.

Psychotherapy is primarily a talk-based therapy that is intended to help people improve and maintain their mental health and well-being. An RP works with individuals, couples, and families in individual and group settings.

Psychotherapy occurs when the RP and client enter into a psychotherapeutic relationship where both work together to bring about positive change in the client’s thinking, feeling, behavior, and social functioning. Individuals usually seek psychotherapy when they have thoughts, feelings, moods, and behaviors that are adversely affecting their day-to-day lives, relationships, and the ability to enjoy life.

There is a beginning, a middle, and an end to psychotherapy.

Christian Counselling

Christian counselling is a time limited relationship that provides encouragement and practical guidance rooted in Biblical principles that help clients develop healthy living and coping mechanisms. It fosters an ever growing dependence on God’s grace and faithful presence as well as interdependence on the people of God.