About Susan
Susan Blanchard is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. Her style is warm and calm, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more able to cope.
Susan trained in person-centred counselling and has three years of professional experience. She has supported patients in NHS cancer services and has practical experience working with neurodiversity. She uses these experiences to shape how she plans sessions.
How Susan works
Sessions are tailored to the individual. Susan listens, offers empathy and helps people talk through difficult thoughts and feelings. She keeps language plain and practical so ideas can be tried between meetings.
She often works on worries about relationships, communication and managing stress. Other areas she supports include trauma and abuse, body image, caregiving strain, chronic illness and issues linked to attachment and abandonment. Susan aims to help people find clearer ways to manage distress and rebuild confidence.
She will work alongside someone to explore different perspectives and practical steps. The goal is to help a person feel more content and able to move forward. She offers a calm, accepting space for conversations about grief, health anxiety, work pressures and other life challenges.
Sessions focus on what matters most to each individual and on building coping strategies that fit everyday life.
What Susan works with
The areas below are the ones Susan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How person-centred work and online sessions fit together
Susan draws primarily on person-centred counselling, which focuses on listening, empathy and creating a non-judgemental space. This approach helps people speak about painful memories, relationship worries and low self-worth so they can find their own way forward.She also uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address specific problems. For example, brief practical strategies can help with managing anxiety or unhelpful thinking patterns by teaching simple tools to challenge negative thoughts and reduce worry. When trauma or strong emotional reactions are present, the work centres on building safety, pacing conversations and developing coping skills to manage distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Susan works collaboratively to decide which techniques suit a person’s needs and preferences. She listens to goals and adapts methods over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving or mobility challenges and help therapy fit into everyday life.
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