About Susan
Susan "Sue" Small is a UK-based counsellor with six years' experience helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She holds BACP accreditation, which she uses alongside a gentle, people-focused way of working. Sue takes a straightforward approach and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
She listens in a non-judgemental way and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings as well as on understanding what has been most difficult.
Background and approach
Sue describes her style as warm and down-to-earth rather than formal. Sue works with issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain and life changes. She also supports people navigating ADHD, autism and problems linked to trauma or abuse.
Examples of other concerns she helps with include self-esteem, parenting pressures, addiction and career stress. Her approach draws on client-centred ways of working that keep the person's goals central. She also uses solution-focused ideas to help set clear, short-term goals.
For trauma-related issues she adopts trauma-focused methods to address difficult memories and reactions at a pace each person can manage. Sessions are conversational and aimed at small, achievable change. Sue encourages people to notice progress, however small, and to try out new coping ideas between sessions.
She aims to support people through difficult moments and towards a clearer sense of direction.
How Sue’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on hearing the person's experience without judgement and helping them identify their own goals. Online sessions let the counsellor and client talk through what matters most and shape sessions around the client's priorities.Solution-Focused Therapy emphasises small, practical steps and clear short-term goals. This approach works well online because it supports brief check-ins, progress reviews and planning of tasks to try between sessions.
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process painful memories and reduce their ongoing impact. When used online, work of this kind is paced to suit the person's readiness and can include grounding and coping strategies practised in-session.
Sue will work collaboratively to find which approach fits best for each person. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and adapt the plan as therapy progresses so the work remains relevant to your needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls provide face-to-face discussion when you want visual contact. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while still keeping the therapeutic focus.
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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
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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