About Susan
Susan Jackson is a counsellor with ten years of clinical work and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council, HCPC, and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers a caring presence for people facing anxiety, stress and related concerns. Her way of working is straightforward and gentle.
She encourages people to tell their story in their own words. Susan's background includes dramatherapy and talking therapies. She often combines talking with creative activities when that feels helpful.
Background and approach
Creative options can include music, movement, poetry or simple art tasks. These are always optional and based on what the person prefers. She uses client-centred principles to keep sessions focused on each person's goals.
Cognitive behavioural ideas are used to spot patterns and try small practical changes between sessions. Hypnotherapy and psychodynamic ideas may also be offered when relevant to the issue at hand. Susan works with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, sleeping problems, anger and low self esteem.
She also supports people dealing with career pressures, compassion fatigue, ADHD and long-term health issues including chronic pain and cancer related stress. Sessions aim to build safety and clarity so workable steps can follow. Susan invites people to discover strengths they already have and to try manageable changes.
She helps plan what to do next and reviews progress together.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It involves listening without judgement, helping people make sense of their own feelings and decide what they want to change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and uses practical exercises to try new ways of responding.Susan draws on these approaches and can offer hypnotherapy when it fits the person’s needs. Together they will discuss what helps most and agree a plan. Choosing the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process and may change as goals become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit around life. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation from home, phone needs less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in, while chat or messaging can suit quick reflections or people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility so people can keep working on their goals in ways that suit their routine and energy levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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