Susan Jackson
Experienced trauma-informed psychotherapist
About Susan
Susan Jackson is a psychotherapist who brings a decade of practice to her work. She holds HCPC registration and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her style is gentle and practical, aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression and major life changes.
Susan focuses on trauma, relationship and intimacy-related concerns alongside issues such as grief, addiction and low self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, cancer, and challenges around body image and identity within LGBT experience.
Background and approach
Sessions can include creative options when helpful, such as drama, movement, music or writing. Susan draws on client-centred ways of working and cognitive behavioural ideas to make sense of patterns and build new coping habits.
She also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at how past experiences shape current feelings, and somatic approaches to help the body and mind settle after shock or stress. The work is collaborative. Susan aims to help people identify small, realistic steps that fit day-to-day life.
She offers phone and video sessions as well as live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Clients usually begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling sessions. Susan accepts clients who live in the United Kingdom and offers a practical, compassionate space to work through problems and find clearer ways forward.
What Susan works with
How Susan works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches and online therapy that adapt to your needs
Susan commonly uses client-centred therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy in online work. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and helping a person find their own answers, which suits people who need a supportive space to talk through feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and helps people build new ways of coping with anxiety, low mood and worry.She may also draw on somatic techniques to help with stress held in the body. Somatic work pays attention to bodily sensations and simple exercises that can reduce tension after trauma or during panic. These approaches are chosen to match the issue being worked on and the person’s preferences.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Susan will discuss options with each person and adapt methods as sessions progress. The aim is to agree on practical steps and tools that feel manageable and relevant to everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging is useful for ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility to fit sessions around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- HCPC, BACP
- Languages
- English
