Susan McCarthy
Compassionate counsellor for life transitions
About Susan
Susan McCarthy brings eight years of professional counselling experience in the United Kingdom. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear. She writes plans with each person she meets and keeps conversations respectful and sensitive.
Her work most often focuses on stress and anxiety, low mood and depression, and coping after loss. She also helps people with relationship concerns, career stress, self-esteem struggles and life transitions.
Background and approach
Additional interests include jealousy, multicultural issues and the effects of prejudice and discrimination. Susan adapts how she communicates to suit each person. That can mean practical strategies for daily stress, space to grieve, or talking through relationship patterns.
She balances listening with offering ideas to try between sessions. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what the client needs right now. She supports people who want clearer coping tools, steadier moods, or a fresh perspective on tricky situations.
Her approach aims to be direct, compassionate and grounded in practical steps. People work with Susan to sort immediate problems and build long-term resilience. She encourages small experiments that fit everyday life.
The result is a plan that feels realistic and sustainable rather than overwhelming.
What Susan works with
Sessions & fees
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Many therapists use evidence-based techniques that teach practical skills for everyday life. One common approach focuses on building coping strategies - it looks at current problems and teaches tools to reduce stress and manage strong emotions. This can help with anxiety, low mood and day-to-day overwhelm.Another approach emphasises talking through difficult experiences and patterns. It helps people understand how past events or repeated dynamics shape current reactions, and it supports changes in behaviour and responses. This can be useful for relationship concerns, grief and identity issues.
Finding the right method is part of the work and it is collaborative. The therapist will listen, discuss options and try approaches that match the person's goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is reviewed so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video calls are close to an in-person meeting and allow visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people write when it suits them and are useful for brief updates or when typing feels easier. These options increase flexibility and help people keep continuity of care despite busy schedules.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
