Susan Claridge , BACP

Susan Claridge is an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom who brings over 11 years of counselling experience together with more than 30 years of background in social care. She works with adults and carers across community and residential settings, drawing on a long history of supporting people through complex life challenges. Her experience includes working with depression, anxiety, stress, bereavement and loss, health worries, relationship difficulties, and issues around food, money, and everyday life stressors. She has also provided counselling for survivors of abuse through charitable organisations.

Susan adopts a warm, respectful, and empowering style, meeting each person with openness and consideration. Her practice is integrative, tailoring sessions to the needs of the individual by combining client-centered methods, psychodynamic perspectives, and solution-focused strategies to help people explore feelings, understand patterns, and build practical steps toward change. She is accredited with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and applies professional standards to her work.

Susan aims to help people find clarity and resilience when facing relationship issues, trauma, self-esteem concerns, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, sleep and eating difficulties, and other life transitions. She focuses on creating personalised therapy that supports each person’s unique goals and circumstances.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Susan Claridge

Susan commonly uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on creating a supportive, nonjudgmental environment where a person’s own perspectives and goals guide the work. This approach helps with self-esteem, relationship issues, and coping with life changes by prioritising the client’s experience and pace.

She also draws on psychodynamic therapy to explore how past experiences and unconscious patterns might influence current feelings and relationships. That perspective can be useful for people working through attachment issues, trauma, recurring relationship patterns, or long-standing emotional difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Susan works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts techniques as therapy progresses to ensure a good fit.

Online therapy with Susan can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for people balancing work, family, or mobility considerations. These options make it easier to access consistent support from licensed professionals and therapists without needing to travel, while allowing sessions to fit into different schedules and daily routines.