About Susan
Susan (Susy) Putnam is a counsellor with seven years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress and life changes. She offers a gentle, reflective space where people can talk through difficult moments and build coping skills. Sessions are aimed at making things feel more manageable, one step at a time.
Susy keeps the person at the centre of the work and adapts her approach to what each client needs. She works from an integrative perspective, combining ideas from attachment-based, client-centred, existential, mindfulness and psychodynamic approaches.
Background and approach
Guided visualisation is often used alongside conversation to help people find a way through. Her background includes time working in education and teaching in prisons, and she has worked in different countries. That variety of experience informs a practical, down-to-earth style.
Susy also has substantial experience supporting people with neurodiversity, including ADHD and high-functioning autism. People contact her about a wide range of concerns. These include relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, career worries, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports those facing multicultural challenges, midlife change and questions about life purpose. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Her BACP credential is listed as BACP.
To start, clients follow a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In online sessions this can help people notice how they relate to others and build more supported ways of connecting. Client-centred therapy puts the person’s own experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client’s pace to help them clarify feelings and decisions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce overwhelm and manage anxiety in day-to-day life.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and will adapt techniques over time. Clients and the therapist choose what fits best, and review how things are going as therapy progresses.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing things down or who want frequent, brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and usable tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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