About Sue
Sue MacMillan offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low mood. She helps with relationship worries, grief, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach is conversational and non-judgemental, aimed at helping people find new ways to think and act.
Sue works from an integrative background and draws on several common counselling ideas. She listens closely to what matters to each person and then chooses ways of working that suit their goals.
How Sue works
Sessions are focused on helping people notice patterns, understand feelings, and try different responses in daily life. She pays attention to attachment concerns and issues around control, guilt and shame. Social anxiety and phobia are also within her focus, and she will explore how these problems show up in relationships and routines.
The work is practical and paced to what each person can manage. Sue trained as an integrative counsellor and is a member of BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her three years of practice mean she blends straightforward listening with techniques that help change unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
People can expect a warm, steady presence in sessions and an emphasis on small, doable steps. The aim is to help someone leave therapy with clearer choices and more confidence in how they live and relate to others.
What Sue works with
The areas below are the ones Sue selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sue uses an integrative counselling approach that combines person-centred listening with other established techniques. Person-centred work focuses on understanding the person’s experience and creating a space where they can reflect and decide what changes they want to make. It helps with building self-worth and clarity about relationships.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships and early patterns affect current feelings and behaviour. This can be useful for addressing attachment concerns and repeated relational difficulties. Cognitive behavioural ideas are included too to spot unhelpful thinking and try practical changes that make daily life easier, which suits issues like anxiety and social phobia.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide which ways of working to try. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what feels most useful.
Online therapy with Sue uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let people talk face to face from wherever they are, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging suit those who prefer typing or want shorter, more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments.
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