Susan Marshall

I am a highly experienced counsellor/psychotherapist in practice for over twenty years. I have worked with a wide variety of people and issues in a number of settings such as a mental health charity, the NHS, private practice and significantly as a counsellor/psychotherapist in education counselling students and staff. I worked in Higher Education for seventeen years, providing clinical leadership for a University counselling, wellbeing and mental health service for  leading student counselling and managing a workplace counselling service.

I am highly experienced in issues of loss, grief, dilemmas and life crisis, with lack of meaning and confusion with life.

I have substantial experience in supervising the work of other therapists and trainees and have learned much from others’ practice and from the experience of working with a diverse range of clients across a number of therapeutic approaches, I also teach and provide training and supervision for counsellors/psychotherapists.

Your Search

You may be scrolling through profiles now looking for a good match, and wondering what you are looking for? You may be searching to find the person who describes what you are experiencing now, or want to become, or who seems trustworthy, qualified, experienced, friendly. You will have your reasons for looking now. Perhaps someone else has suggested you might want to try it.

Whatever your intention now, it’s to be taken seriously, do remember it.

My Approach

I adapt my approach to you and what you bring, and this flexibility is underpinned by my training as an integrative counsellor/psychotherapist and existential therapist.

I will work with you to help you face the things that need to be faced, to enable you to ask meaningful questions of your life, and to help you tune into your answers. With kindness, a steady attitude, and an open manner, we will work to clarify what troubles you and unearth what your options may be. Even the most entrenched problems can be loosened to release enough space and movement that new vitality and perspective is possible.

When we become disorientated, grieving, lost, disillusioned - it is at these times we can come closer to re-evaluating our lives; to discovering a reorientation and new understanding of our capacities and what living a good life means to us. It’s so easy to become confused and out of touch with our emotions and personal wisdom – let’s rectify that – if you do your part and engage honestly in sessions prepared to reflect on your experience, I’ll endeavour to do my best by you.

I am a keen listener, and am not one to tell you what to do, but I will engage fully in our sessions and have an active, sometimes conversational approach.  I am easy to talk with and offer new ways of seeing things.

• Culture-shock
• Homesickness
• Meaninglessness

I charge £70.00 per session and currently have some availability for video call therapy.

Issues I work with

• Relationships
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Stress and Burnout
• Confidence and Self-Worth
• Workplace Issues
• Student Life
• Family Life
• Life Crisis
• Loss
• Bereavement
• Transitions
• Dilemmas and Life Choices
• Identity
• Sexuality
• Gender
• Creative Block
• Trauma
• Living with a skin condition or physical difference
• Living with illness
• Meaning/meaninglessness
• Spiritual Issues.