About Susan
Susan John offers a person-focused counselling style that centres on the client's experience. She uses a blend of approaches to help people notice their thoughts, bodily sensations and emotions, and to find ways of letting go of what no longer serves them. Susan presents in a warm and non-judgemental manner to make it easier to begin difficult conversations.
Her practice covers a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, anger and low self-esteem.
How Susan works
She also supports people facing grief, trauma and issues around intimacy and relationships. Additional areas include eating and sleeping problems, career stress and compassion fatigue, plus challenges linked to identity and LGBT matters. Susan applies Client-Centred Therapy together with Emotionally-Focused Therapy and mindfulness.
She uses hypnotherapy where appropriate and adapts the mix to suit what a person needs in the moment. This flexible approach means sessions can be about immediate coping strategies or longer exploration of feelings and patterns. With four years of experience she draws on practical techniques and straightforward conversation.
Sessions may involve noticing physical reactions, practising calming exercises and trying new ways of relating to difficult thoughts. The tone is honest and compassionate, aimed at helping people build insight and better coping skills. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people located internationally.
Susan is listed with BACP and NCPS, which are shown as her professional credentials.
Susan lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Combining emotion-focused work with online delivery
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own experience and aims to create space for honest reflection and self-direction. It helps when someone needs to be heard and to make sense of feelings without judgement.Emotionally-Focused Therapy pays attention to how people experience and express emotion in relationships and in themselves. It can be useful for those dealing with attachment issues, intimacy-related concerns, grief or strong emotional reactions that feel overwhelming.
Susan will work collaboratively to find the right mix of approaches based on goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. That means trying different techniques in early sessions and agreeing together which to continue, whether the focus is short-term coping or deeper emotional work.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging which offer practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be quieter and use less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the therapeutic focus intact.
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