About Susan
Susan Mahachi is an ACA counsellor with 16 years of experience who uses a practical, person-focused style. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship tension, parenting strain, low self-esteem and depression. Her manner is calm and straightforward, and she aims to make the first steps easier for someone worried or unsure.
Susan works in a way that values the person's own goals and pace. She listens first, then helps people try tools that suit their life.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve noticeable, small changes people can try between meetings. Her work draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, along with attachment-focused ideas and client-centred ways of relating. She uses these to help people manage thoughts, increase connection and build practical routines that reduce overwhelm.
Susan has also supported people with parenting concerns, blended family issues, separation, body image and eating-related worries. She works with those experiencing caregiver stress, communication problems and unresolved family-of-origin questions. She can talk about forgiveness and rebuilding trust after relationship ruptures.
People can expect clear conversation, gentle challenge and a focus on next steps. Susan offers sessions in English and Shona and practices from Australia. She aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first meeting.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that fit their values. It focuses on small, practical steps to reduce avoidance and build a more meaningful daily routine. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, teaches skills to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current connection and trust, and helps people strengthen healthier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different techniques and adapt what works best. You will decide together which methods feel most helpful and relevant to your situation.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and visual cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and are easier on the go. Live chat or messaging can suit short check-ins, quick coping strategies or people who prefer typing. These options make scheduling simpler and help therapy fit around work, school and family commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Shona
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