About Susan
Susan Stewart offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or loss. She keeps sessions simple and practical so parents and adults can talk through what is happening now and find steps that fit their life. Susan uses clear language and a steady presence to help clients feel heard and less alone.
Susan brings 14 years of experience working with trauma, abuse and related difficulties that affect motivation and self-esteem.
How Susan works
She also helps people managing grief, panic and the exhaustion that comes from caring roles. Sessions focus on what is most pressing, such as panic attacks, low mood, or trouble with relationships and boundaries. Her approach starts from the idea that each person understands their own story best.
In sessions she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and works alongside clients to identify small, practical changes. That might mean trying different ways to manage anxiety, making sense of painful memories, or finding clearer goals for work and family life. Susan uses client-centred ideas to keep the conversation focused on each person’s needs.
She also draws on trauma-focused work when memories or past harm are part of the difficulty. Existential perspectives help people consider meaning and life direction when confidence or purpose feel shaken. Susan is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging for people across the United Kingdom who prefer online support.
Susan lists 3 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
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
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
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Susan uses client-centred therapy to follow each person’s lead, listening and reflecting so the conversations stay relevant to what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs a safe place to be heard and to decide what changes to try next.She also uses trauma-focused therapy when past harm affects daily life. That work helps with flashbacks, intrusive memories and reactions that get in the way of sleep, work or relationships by gently addressing the impact of those events.
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Susan will discuss approaches with each person and agree together which methods suit their needs, goals and comfort level. This collaborative process helps make sessions feel useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for a fuller conversation, phone calls suit people who need less bandwidth, live chat can work for short check-ins and messaging lets clients send notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and busy days.
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