Susan Claridge, BACP

Susan Claridge offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. She makes sessions straightforward and approachable, focusing on what matters most to each person. Her style is warm and respectful, and she aims to help people feel heard and clearer about their next steps.

Susan uses a flexible approach so the work fits the individual. She draws on client-centred ways of working that prioritise the person’s perspective and pace. She also includes psychodynamic ideas to look at how past patterns affect current feelings, and solution-focused tools to build small, practical changes.

Before becoming a counsellor she worked for more than 30 years in social care. That background includes supporting adults and carers in community and residential settings. She has provided counselling to people affected by abuse through charitable organisations.

Susan has 11 years of counselling experience and holds BACP, which is shown as her credential. She adapts sessions for common concerns such as relationships, grief, eating and sleeping problems, addiction issues and chronic health worries. She also works with attachment, caregiver stress and other related areas.

The work tends to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Susan focuses on helping people manage immediate problems and on understanding longer standing patterns when useful. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to availability.

Therapeutic approaches and how they can work online

Susan uses client-centred work that focuses on the person’s own experience and goals. This approach is about listening closely and helping people find their own answers to problems like anxiety, low mood or relationship strain.

She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to help people see repeated patterns from the past that turn up in current relationships and emotional responses. This can suit people who want to understand the roots of long-standing difficulties rather than only fix immediate symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the person to decide which mix of listening, exploring past patterns and solution-focused tasks will best match their needs and goals. That decision is reviewed as progress is made.

Practical benefits of online therapy can include fitting sessions around work and family life and avoiding travel time. Online work can make it easier to have shorter check-ins or to use video or audio depending on what suits the person that day. The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm the available options before booking to ensure they match your needs and daily routine.