About Susan
Susan Claridge is an experienced counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. She works in a straightforward, respectful way and aims to create a space where people can talk about what matters most to them. Susan’s style is warm and empowering, and she adapts her approach to each person’s needs.
She trained and works as a counsellor and psychotherapist and holds BACP, which recognises professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
Susan has practised for 11 years as a counsellor, following more than 30 years working in social care with adults and carers in community and residential settings. Across her career she has helped people with a wide range of concerns. These include depression, anxiety, stress, bereavement and loss, relationship difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, addictions and health worries.
She has also provided counselling for survivors of abuse and supported people facing major life transitions. Susan draws on client-centred methods to follow what each person brings, psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns from the past, and solution-focused techniques to build practical steps forward. Conversations are guided by what feels most useful for the individual rather than a single formula.
Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, noticing unhelpful patterns, and trying small changes to test what helps. Susan also supports people coping with grief, family stress, career pressure, anger and long-term health issues. Her aim is to help people feel more able to manage day-to-day challenges and make choices that suit their lives.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Susan works from a mix of client-centred, psychodynamic and solution-focused approaches. Client-centred work means she follows what the person brings and offers reflective listening to help clarify feelings and priorities. Psychodynamic ideas look at repeating patterns and how past experiences shape current reactions, which can help when someone wants to understand why they keep getting stuck. Solution-focused work aims to identify small, practical steps and goals that can be tried between sessions to create change.Choosing the right approach is a shared effort. Susan will talk with clients about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then agree on a way of working together. That plan can change as the work develops and as new priorities emerge.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit around busy days or provide a way to reflect between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, caregiving and other commitments, while still working with an experienced counsellor and the therapeutic approaches above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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