About Susan
Susan Walker works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or low self-esteem. She offers calm, practical support for those facing relationship strain, addiction concerns, parenting challenges and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful, with an emphasis on small, achievable steps.
Susan has a BACP credential and brings 25 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She tailors conversations and plans to each person, matching pace and techniques to what feels useful.
How Susan works
That may mean short skills to use between sessions or deeper work over months. Her approach combines talking therapies and structured methods. Susan draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking.
She uses mindfulness and acceptance-based work to reduce reactivity and build valued action. When trauma or abuse is involved she moves carefully and at a person’s speed. She can include elements of dialectical behaviour therapy for strong emotions, and hypnotherapy for relaxation and reprocessing when appropriate.
The aim is to give tools people can use in everyday life. Susan also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment wounds, blended family stresses, caregiver strain, and issues such as dissociation or first responder pressures. Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals, whether that means symptom relief, improved relationships, or finding more purpose and calm.
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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and life transitions to create clearer direction and steadier behaviour. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches practical tools to change patterns. It is helpful for anxiety, depression and stress by giving clear techniques to try between sessions. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a supportive, non-judgemental conversation where the counsellor follows the person’s lead to build understanding and confidence.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then combine methods that fit. That might mean short-term CBT exercises alongside acceptance work or gentler client-centred conversation first to build trust.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises that use screen sharing. Phone sessions can be simpler when connectivity varies or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, homework support and people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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