About Susan
Susan McGrattan is a counsellor with eight years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She holds the NCPS credential and works with adults on a range of concerns. She aims to offer straightforward, compassionate support so people feel heard and able to take practical steps forward.
Susan focuses on common daily pressures such as stress, anxiety and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and addiction.
How Susan works
Issues like low self-esteem, sleep and eating problems, ADHD and career strain are often part of the work she does with clients. Her approach mixes well-known therapies to match each person’s needs. That can include acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centred conversation, cognitive behavioural tools and emotion-focused techniques.
Sessions are collaborative and aimed at helping people notice patterns, try new ways of coping and set achievable goals. Susan also supports people dealing with parenting strain, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care matters, and caregiver stress. She offers help around abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness and other long-term stresses that affect daily life.
Sessions are offered in English and Susan accepts international clients. Therapy can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Susan lists 9 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can explore online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that reflect their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress and life changes and helps people move toward meaningful goals despite discomfort.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection patterns. It helps people understand trust and closeness issues and can improve the way they relate to others in close relationships.
Susan will work together with each person to find the right approach. She views the choice of method as a joint decision based on goals, preferences and what feels most useful in session. It is common to mix ideas from different therapies so the work fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy offers a range of ways to meet that fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written communication or need flexibility to fit therapy around work, study and caregiving commitments.
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