Susan Walker
Supportive counsellor for stress and relationships
About Susan
Susan Walker welcomes people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or drained by life’s challenges. She aims to make the first step easier by offering calm, straightforward support. Susan uses plain language and practical tools so conversations feel useful from the start.
She is a BACP counsellor with 25 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Her work covers stress and anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, grief, eating issues and parenting strain.
Background and approach
She also focuses on attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiving stress, blended family and communication problems, and difficulties linked to first responder roles. Susan adapts how she works to each person’s needs. She blends Client-Centred listening with practical techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Where helpful she can use elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and hypnotherapy to support emotional regulation and behavioural change. Sessions aim to build clearer thinking, steadier mood, and more reliable coping skills. Susan helps people spot unhelpful patterns, try different ways of responding, and set simple steps they can take between sessions.
She pays attention to safety and to pacing, especially when trauma or strong emotions are present. Her style is respectful, direct and steady. She works with people who want practical change as well as those wanting to understand their feelings better.
The focus is on small, achievable progress that adds up over time.
What Susan works with
How Susan works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches for online counselling and practical change
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting pushed around by them. It supports identifying personal values and taking small, meaningful steps that match those values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression and stress because it gives clear tools to try between sessions. Client-Centred Therapy centres the conversation on the person’s experience, offering non-judgemental listening and support as a foundation for change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and try methods that fit the person’s needs, goals and preferences. Together they will check what feels helpful and adapt the plan as progress is made, so therapy stays relevant and doable.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to work around work, family and travel commitments while still receiving consistent therapeutic support.
| 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
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
