- Years in practice
- 8
- Registration
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Susan
Susan McGrattan is a counsellor with eight years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She offers practical, person-focused support for everyday problems that often feel overwhelming. Parents will find clear, straightforward help with stress, sleep, eating, and parenting strains.
She also assists with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her background combines several talking‑based approaches to meet each person’s needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters and take small steps towards it.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. Emotionally-Focused and Attachment‑based ideas inform work around closeness and trust. Susan prefers a collaborative, down‑to‑earth style.
She listens first, then suggests practical exercises and ways to try things between sessions. Sessions focus on skills you can use at home and simple changes that fit into busy family life. She works with a wide range of concerns including addiction, ADHD, compassion fatigue and career stress.
Additional interests include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiving strain and chronic illness. Those needing help with body image, abandonment or attachment themes will also find relevant experience. Sessions are offered in English and Susan accepts clients from other countries.
Therapy is delivered online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
What Susan works with
Everything Susan lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Susan helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Susan lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Susan combines clear, practical approaches so online sessions feel focused and useful. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their values and take small steps towards them, which is useful for stress, parenting strain and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and introduces small experiments and strategies to reduce anxiety and sleeping or eating problems. Attachment‑based and Emotionally‑Focused ideas guide conversations about closeness, trust and communication when relationship or intimacy issues come up.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and choose methods together. That means the plan can change as you learn what helps most during sessions and between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit support into a busy life. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video, and live chat or text messaging suit short check‑ins or ongoing written work. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, childcare and daily routines.
Questions people ask about Susan
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, sleep and eating difficulties, addiction, ADHD and relationship or intimacy concerns.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Her approach is collaborative and down‑to‑earth. She listens first, then suggests practical exercises and ways to try things between sessions to build coping skills.
How much experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience working with adults and young people across a broad range of difficulties and life stages.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed with NCPS and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text‑based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a course of sessions?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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