Susan John, BACP, NCPS

Susan John is a counsellor registered with the BACP and NCPS in the United Kingdom with four years' experience. She works with adults on issues such as stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps people facing relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, trauma and codependency concerns.

Susan uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs at the time. She pays attention to thoughts and to how emotions show up in the body. That can mean talking through patterns, learning coping strategies, or using mindfulness and hypnotherapy techniques to calm strong reactions.

In practice she keeps things straightforward and practical. Short-term work focuses on the here and now and teaches tools people can use between sessions. Longer work looks at patterns that repeat in relationships and at attachment and abandonment issues that can leave someone feeling stuck.

Susan has experience with identity and LGBT questions, career and caregiver stress, sleep and eating concerns, and with people affected by chronic illness such as cancer. She also supports those managing compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges.

Sessions are conversational and collaborative. The counsellor aims to help people notice unhelpful habits, set clearer boundaries, and rebuild a stronger sense of self apart from other people’s expectations. If someone wants to try hypnotherapy or mindfulness, those methods can be introduced alongside client-centred or emotionally focused work.

To begin, she asks clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first meeting so she can suggest an approach that fits the person's goals and circumstances.

How Susan uses her approaches in online sessions