Counsellor profile
Susan Jackson, HCPC, BACP
United Kingdom
Dramatherapist - relationships and trauma
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- Credentials
- HCPC, BACP
- Registration
- HCPC, United Kingdom / AS017916; BACP, United Kingdom / 118200
- Experience
- 10 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Creative methods
- CBT techniques
- Hypnotherapy options
About Susan
Susan Jackson is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered dramatherapist and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with ten years' experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions and a range of related difficulties. Sessions are offered in English from the United Kingdom.
Susan draws on dramatherapy alongside talking-based approaches. That can mean talking through a concern, using movement, or trying creative methods like music or poetry to find new ways of responding. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas and hypnotherapy when these are a good fit for practical change.
People who come to her often want clearer boundaries, help with codependency patterns, or relief from overwhelming emotions. She explains things plainly and aims to help people notice small shifts in thinking and behaviour that ease day-to-day life. Work may include exploring attachment and abandonment issues, managing anger, or addressing sleep and concentration problems associated with ADHD.
Sessions typically focus on the here and now as well as past patterns that keep repeating. In practice this means identifying unhelpful cycles, trying simple experiments between sessions, and using creative exercises when helpful. Susan invites clients to decide how they want to work and how much creativity to bring into sessions.
She asks new clients to use a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session. Fees vary by location and are paid through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time. International clients are not currently accepted.
How sessions work
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Susan uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in accessible ways. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own perspective and encourages the client to lead what they want to talk about. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and uses straightforward exercises to test new ways of thinking.She also draws on dramatherapy methods adapted for talking and creative exploration. That might include using imagery, storytelling or movement ideas to access feelings that are hard to name. These approaches can help with relationship patterns, codependency, anxiety and coping after trauma.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will discuss goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those aims. That choice is collaborative - the client and therapist review what helps and adjust the plan together.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current online options before booking. Many people appreciate online sessions because they can fit therapy into a work break, avoid travel time, or choose not to use video for shorter check-ins. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt creative and CBT exercises to work well at a distance, and Susan will explain practical steps for tasks to try between sessions.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
10+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
Susan works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions and related problems such as codependency and attachment difficulties.
What is her therapeutic style?
She blends dramatherapy with talking approaches, using creative expression, cognitive behavioural ideas and hypnotherapy when appropriate.
How much experience does she have?
She has ten years of professional experience working as a dramatherapist and counsellor in the United Kingdom.
What professional registrations does she hold?
She is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; sessions are based in the United Kingdom.
How are sessions charged?
Fees vary by location and sessions use a subscription payment that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin sessions?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.