Susan Coldwell
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About me
I have been practicing as a person-centred counsellor for over 10 years. I offer both long and short term therapy.
Counselling is a very personal, challenging and emotional journey. That is why it is important to find the right counsellor for you, someone you feel safe being vulnerable with. Making contact is the first step but I understand this can be scary. I offer a free 15 minute initial video call for you to see if you think I could be the right counsellor for you.
We are all on our own personal journeys and when anyone chooses to come to therapy they will naturally be in different places on that journey and choose different paths based on their own desired outcomes. I will work with you as a unique individual, wherever you are on that journey, whether just starting out or looking to delve deeper into self-awareness. Offering acceptance, empathy and compassion without judgement. Therapy could involve processing and understanding things that have happened the past; letting go of thoughts and feelings that no longer serve you; looking at personal development, care of self and self-compassion.
Training, qualifications & experience
- BSc Psychology – Sheffield Hallam University
- Dip in Person Centred counselling and Psychotherapy – Temenos Education, Sheffield
- Supervision in the helping professions – University of Salford
I have extensive experience of working in a trauma informed way with adult survivors of childhood sexual exploitation, particularly those involved in grooming gangs. I work with these survivors on feelings of shame and self-blame, helping them process their emotions around what happened to them, understanding that it was not their fault and exploring how these experiences have impacted on their sense of self and relationships in later life.
I have also worked as a counsellor in the NHS offering to support to adults who had been diagnosed with autism later in life. Counselling helped them process their feelings about their diagnosis, make sense of some of the experiences they’d had throughout their life and put this into the context of being neurodivergent and what it meant to them personally as they explored their own identity.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
Payments are made online via a service called SumUp. A link will be sent by text or email for you to make a secure debit card payment. Discounts are available for people on low incomes.
Further information
I offer online counselling via Zoom, a link will be sent by email 15 minutes before the session start time
Current Availability:
- Monday 10.00am – 6.00pm
- Tue/Thu/Fri 6.00pm – 7.30pm
