About Susan
Susan Kinsella-Brice is a counsellor with 14 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression and recovery from trauma. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable and straightforward for someone who is worried or uncertain about therapy.
She listens first and helps people name what feels most urgent. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Susan encourages self-compassion while helping people connect with their own strengths and resources.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. She also uses emotionally focused methods to improve how people cope with painful feelings. Mindfulness and existential ideas appear when useful to build perspective and tolerance for difficult moments.
Across sessions she aims to be clear about goals and steps. Conversations often include simple strategies for sleep, stress management and coping with life changes. She supports people dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, addiction and caregiver stress.
Susan has particular experience with self-esteem, motivation and anger, and she helps clients who face chronic pain, eating-related struggles or feelings of emptiness. She recognises the courage it takes to start therapy and works at a steady pace that suits each client.
How Susan's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the client's experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judgement and follows the person's needs, which helps people feel heard and understood during online conversations. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing patterns of thought and behaviour that keep problems going, and it is helpful for anxiety, sleep and stress-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether to focus on thoughts and behaviours, emotional connection, or present-moment awareness, and this can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer text-based contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep working on goals between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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