Susan McGrattan
Practical, collaborative therapy for everyday struggles
About Susan
Susan McGrattan practises as a counsellor in the United Kingdom and holds the NCPS credential. She has eight years of experience supporting people with concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, addiction and trauma. Her approach aims to be practical and personable so people can talk about difficult things without jargon.
Susan focuses on making therapy collaborative. She listens first, then helps set clear, achievable goals. Sessions are aimed at building coping skills and increasing emotional awareness rather than relying on labels or quick fixes.
Background and approach
People come to discuss relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stresses, career worries, sleeping and eating problems, and life transitions. She also addresses concerns such as compassion fatigue, ADHD, body image and chronic illness in straightforward terms. The aim is to find manageable steps that fit everyday life.
Susan combines a few evidence-informed approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses techniques that help with unhelpful patterns, emotional regulation and attachment-related difficulties. Therapy is paced to suit the individual so progress feels steady and understandable.
Sessions offer time to unpack painful experiences like bereavement, trauma or past abandonment, and to build new ways of coping. She works with people who identify as LGBT and those navigating adoption or foster care related issues. The emphasis is on practical change and clearer relationships, reached through steady, conversational work.
People are encouraged to set the agenda and bring what matters most. The counsellor will help track progress and adjust strategies so work stays relevant to real-life demands and goals.
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Sessions & fees
Online approaches that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people identify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, low mood and life transitions by turning values into practical actions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect current connections. It helps people understand emotional responses and try different ways of relating to others, which can ease relationship and intimacy-related difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and how they respond to different techniques. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility to arrange therapy around work, family or study commitments while still working on meaningful change.
| 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
