About Susan
Susan Claridge is a counsellor who aims to help people facing anxiety, stress and relationship difficulties. She uses a straightforward, respectful style so people can speak openly about what is worrying them. Her approach is practical and personal, and she focuses on helping people feel more able to cope day to day.
Susan has worked in social care for over 30 years. That background includes supporting adults and carers in community and residential settings.
Background and approach
She has provided counselling in charitable services too, including work with survivors of abuse. In her clinical work she draws on client-centred and psychodynamic ways of working, alongside solution-focused techniques. That means sessions can include listening to how problems began, looking at current patterns, and agreeing small practical steps to try between meetings.
The mix is chosen to suit each person rather than following a fixed protocol. People bring a wide range of worries to her sessions, including depression, grief, sleep or eating problems, addiction and managing life changes. She also supports those coping with health concerns, chronic conditions and caregiver stress.
Conversations are paced to match what someone can manage in the moment. Susan holds BACP membership, which is shown as BACP. She has around 11 years' experience specifically in counselling and psychotherapy, building on her long social care career.
Her practice is based in the United Kingdom and she works in English.
How these approaches work online
Susan uses client-centred methods that put the person's experience first. That means the counsellor listens carefully and reflects what is said to help someone make sense of their feelings and choices. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood and relationship worries.She also draws on psychodynamic work to look at patterns that repeat over time. That can involve gentle discussion about how early experiences influence current reactions and helps when people want to understand why they respond in certain ways.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist and client talk about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try approaches that fit the person's needs. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video works well for a face-to-face feel, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits short check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options help make therapy fit around work, caring duties and travel constraints while keeping the focus on the therapeutic work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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