Susan Clayton
Practical counselling for stress, grief and relationships
About Susan
Susan Clayton helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and addiction. She also supports those coping with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career pressure, ADHD and the long shadow of trauma or abuse. Susan is a BACP counsellor with five years' professional experience in the United Kingdom.
Susan keeps sessions practical and straightforward. She listens first, then works with each person to agree clear goals. Conversations focus on what feels manageable now and on simple steps that can make a difference between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on a mix of methods. Cognitive work helps people notice unhelpful thinking. Acceptance-based ideas encourage living in line with personal values.
Attachment-informed perspectives are used when early relationships still affect present patterns. Susan pays attention to the effects of loss and bereavement, and she has specialist experience supporting people through grief. She also works with problems such as codependency, addiction, eating-related concerns and the emotional fallout of illness and separation.
Sessions are adapted to each person's needs, with options that suit busy schedules or people who prefer non-face-to-face contact. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, helping people build coping skills and clearer self-understanding over time.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting led by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to reduce unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, mood and stress-related problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current ways of relating and can help with intimacy, abandonment worries and codependency.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Plans are reviewed over time so methods can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls suit deeper conversations when face-to-face contact helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, reflective notes and people who prefer not to use audio or video. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
