About Susan
Susan McGrattan is a counsellor with eight years' experience practising in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and relationship difficulties. Susan writes in a straightforward way and aims to make the first steps into therapy easier for someone who is worried or unsure.
Susan sees anxiety as a sign there is something beneath the surface worth looking at. She guides people to uncover those roots and to build practical coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she treats clients as experts in their own lives and works alongside them to set achievable goals. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods to match what an individual needs in the moment. That can mean looking at patterns of thought and behaviour, working on emotions in the room, or exploring attachment history to improve close relationships.
She keeps explanations plain and focuses on real-life application. Susan also offers support around grief, trauma and self-esteem, as well as sleep, eating and intimacy-related concerns. She can help with work stress, career questions, caring roles and burnout.
Additional focuses include ADHD, codependency and body image issues. Sessions are available via video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging for people inside and outside the UK. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session according to availability.
How Susan’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. It focuses on values and small actions that make life more meaningful and can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Sessions often include practical exercises and homework to shift unhelpful patterns and to improve sleep, mood and day-to-day functioning.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and work with strong emotions held in relationships. It supports improving connection and communication for those struggling with intimacy or attachment issues.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit the person and the issue at hand. If a different approach looks more helpful later, that can be tried instead.
Online therapy lets people fit counselling around life commitments. Video calls work well when non-verbal cues matter. Phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or between-session support. Registered and accredited professionals offer these formats so people can access care with greater flexibility.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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