Susanna "Susan" Abraham, BACP

Susanna "Susan" Abraham is a counsellor with 15 years of practice who aims to help people find meaning and steadiness in their lives. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and she offers talking therapies from the United Kingdom. Susan focuses on helping people regain hope and build resilience in the everyday. Susan creates a calm, compassionate space where people can bring what troubles them. She listens without judgement and helps people make sense of painful thoughts and feelings. Together they set realistic goals that match what matters most to the client. Her work draws on approaches that look at relationships, emotional experience and thought patterns. Sessions can include exploring attachment patterns, noticing unhelpful thinking, and identifying emotional needs that are getting overlooked. The emphasis is on practical steps people can try between sessions. Clients often seek help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief and addiction. Susan also supports people dealing with relationship strain, career pressures, parenting stresses and coping with major life changes. She has additional experience with body image, bereavement, caregiver stress, and issues arising after separation. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Susan works collaboratively and tailors the pace and focus to each persons situation. If someone wants a therapist who combines gentle listening with practical tools, she may be a good match.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and behaviour. Online sessions using this approach help people recognise recurring patterns in relationships and try different ways of getting needs met. Client-centred therapy puts the persons experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens deeply, reflects what she hears and helps people explore their values and choices. This approach suits people who want a non-directive space to make sense of their emotions. Finding the right approach is part of the process and the counsellor will work with the client to decide what fits best. That choice is based on the issues brought to sessions, the goals someone has, and practical preferences about how to work together. Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing, need short updates between sessions, or want a way to reach a counsellor without being on camera. Registered or accredited professionals offer these formats to help therapy fit around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and usable tools.