About Susan
Susan John is a counsellor who blends talking and body-focused work to help people feel more balanced. She uses a straightforward, compassionate style and believes clients already have strengths to build on. She supports people with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and a wide range of life challenges.
She draws on Client-Centred and Emotionally-Focused ways of working to help people name feelings and understand patterns in relationships. Hypnotherapy and mindfulness tools are also offered when they suit the person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters now and on practical ways to manage difficult emotions. Sessions are short and simple to begin. Susan listens, helps people spot unhelpful thinking, and suggests coping steps to try between meetings.
She also explores how feelings show up in the body and how that connects to thoughts and behaviours. Her background includes registration with BACP and NCPS, and she has four years of practice with adults and young people. That mix gives experience across concerns such as trauma, grief, eating and sleeping problems, relationship issues, and work-related strain.
Work is collaborative and down-to-earth. People are encouraged to set clear goals and review progress. The aim is to leave with practical strategies and a clearer sense of how to move forward.
Approaches you can use online
Client-Centred work focuses on the person’s own experience. The counsellor listens closely and follows what the client brings, helping them to make sense of feelings and choices. This approach is useful for anxiety, self-esteem and relationship worries.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice patterns in how they react and connect in relationships. It supports people who want to understand strong emotions, attachment concerns and recurring conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and try techniques that match the person’s goals and preferences. Decisions are made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good when visual cues help, phone can fit a short break at work, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging works when people prefer writing. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around busy lives and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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