About Susannah
Susannah "Susy" Rudkin focuses on anxiety, stress and the thoughts that keep people stuck. She aims to help people break cycles of overthinking, calm strong reactions and build clearer confidence. Susy writes plainly and offers practical steps rather than long analysis.
Susy uses a blend of talking and skill-based work. She helps people spot the beliefs and triggers that drive unhelpful patterns. Sessions are aimed at changing what happens day to day, with exercises you can practise between meetings.
Background and approach
Her background includes 17 years of experience in counselling and coaching. She is a BACP member, which means she works within recognised professional standards set out by that body. Susy draws on approaches such as acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioural ideas and attachment-focused thinking.
People come to her for many concerns, including anxiety, stress, depression, relationship worries, grief, addiction and difficulties with sleep or eating. She also supports those coping with life changes, career stress and compassion fatigue. The work suits people who want practical tools and steady progress.
Sessions may use conversation, mindful noticing and small behavioural experiments. Susy encourages a collaborative pace so people can try things out safely. Her style is calm, straightforward and focused on helping clients make manageable changes.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is used to reduce the impact of anxious thinking and re-engage with life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and gives practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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