About Susan
Susan Kinsella-Brice offers calm, direct support for people facing stress, anxiety and life changes. She greets clients with straightforward questions and listens to what matters most. Her style suits those who want practical help and a steady therapeutic presence.
Susan has 14 years of experience. She is a BACP member, which is shown here as BACP. She helps people with depression, trauma and loss, and with problems such as low self-esteem, motivation and compassion fatigue.
How Susan works
She also works with issues linked to addiction, sleep and career pressures. In sessions she starts by understanding the immediate problem. Then she and the client agree on small, manageable steps to try between meetings.
Conversations are plain and focused, not full of jargon. Practical tools and simple reflection are used so people can notice change week to week. She draws on a few established approaches to shape the work.
Cognitive behavioural ideas help with thinking and behaviour patterns. Client-centred ways keep the person’s own experience central. Emotionally-Focused and mindfulness ideas are used when feelings need to be understood and calmed.
Susan also addresses longer-term themes such as attachment, abandonment and codependency when they come up. People who are juggling caregiving, chronic health concerns or ageing-related worries can bring those strains to therapy. The aim is clearer choices and more reliable coping in day-to-day life.
Susan lists 10 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and making space for the client's experience. A counsellor using this approach will follow the person's lead, reflect what they hear and help the client notice their own strengths and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It uses simple experiments and practical tasks to break patterns that maintain anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try things, review progress and adjust the plan so the therapy fits the person rather than the other way round.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people talk face to face when that matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels too much. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or when a client prefers to type. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving or mobility constraints while still allowing regular, consistent support from registered or accredited professionals.
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