About Susan
Susan McGrattan is a counsellor with eight years' experience working with adults across a range of concerns. She draws on several therapy styles to create a tailored plan for each person. Susan works in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
She welcomes international clients and uses a mix of online formats to connect with people wherever they are. Susan focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief, and rebuild self-esteem after difficult events.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, and challenges linked to addiction. Her practice pays attention to attachment, abandonment, parenting concerns and the impact of chronic illness or caregiving responsibilities. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
She listens first, then helps people identify practical steps they can try between sessions. Susan uses tools from cognitive behavioural work and acceptance-based methods to help with negative thoughts and overwhelming feelings. She also draws on emotion-focused and attachment ideas when relationships and connection are central to the issue.
Susan holds the NCPS credential, which she lists with her other professional details. She aims to keep sessions simple and focused so people can use what they learn right away. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat or text messaging depending on needs.
To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session. Susan prefers a paced, collaborative process where goals are revisited and adjusted as progress is made. Her style is calm, direct and practical, aimed at helping people take manageable steps forward.
How these therapies work online and what they can help with
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical techniques to change thinking and behaviour patterns that maintain distress, which can help with depression, anxiety and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centres on understanding feelings and improving emotional connection in relationships, and can be helpful when intimacy or communication issues are present.Susan treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those aims, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process means the approach can shift over time if something else seems more helpful.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video lets people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick reflections, homework support or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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