Susan Walker, BACP

Susan Walker is a counsellor with a long history of helping people through major life shifts and emotional strain. She has 25 years of experience and holds BACP registration. She welcomes conversations about midlife concerns alongside stress, anxiety, relationship strain and grief.

Her approach is practical and person-focused. She uses straightforward talk, listening, and agreed steps to help people tackle low mood, confidence problems, addictive patterns and issues that come from trauma or abuse. Sessions aim to make things clearer and more manageable, not to label or rush anyone.

Susan adapts the way she works to each person. She blends client-centred listening with tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy, and draws on dialectical behaviour and hypnotherapy techniques when useful. The emphasis is on small, usable changes that fit into daily life.

She also works with people facing family stress, parenting strain, abandonment or attachment wounds, and those adjusting after separation or loss. Practical communication skills and coping strategies are common themes in her work.

Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk. Susan aims to help people identify what matters to them, try different ways of responding, and build steps toward more satisfying day-to-day life.

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to take steps that match their values. It can be useful for stress, midlife reassessment and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers small experiments to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety and depression. Client-Centred Therapy centres on empathic listening and building a safe space for people to find their own solutions, which supports self-esteem and relationship concerns.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can shift as progress is made.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online sessions can make it easier to maintain continuity during life changes and allow for shorter check-ins when a quick update is helpful. The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm the current options before booking to ensure they suit your needs.