Susan Marshall

Name: Susan Marshall
Address: Video Call Therapy, Sheffield, S10 2SE, GB
Telephone: +447493708575
Price range: £80.00 per session

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MSc MBACP (Accred) PgC PgD

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About me

I am a highly experienced psychotherapist and counsellor 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 in university education with students and staff. I worked in Higher Education for seventeen years, providing clinical leadership for a counselling and wellbeing service and managed a workplace counselling service. I am experienced with workplace issues and relationships.

I am highly experienced in issues of loss, bereavement, grief, dilemmas and life crisis, with lack of meaning, disillusionment, anxiety, depression and confusion in life. I am skilled with those navigating change, and who may feel lost.

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 and counselling psychologists.

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 psychotherapist.

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.

Training, qualifications & experience

I am a highly experienced psychotherapist (UKCP registered) and counsellor (senior accredited BACP member). I am an existential psychotherapist - you may have heard the term "existential crisis" - used a lot in recent years, and this approach essentially looks at your ways of living, how you make sense of your life, what matters to you and does not pathologise you. It asks that you can engage openly in talking about your life and what is happening for you, and I seek to provide a relationship where you can do this. I am also integratively trained and adapt my approach to what may work best for you. I have worked with a wide variety of people and issues in several settings such as a mental health charity, the NHS, private practice and significantly as a counsellor/psychotherapist in education, offering counselling to students and staff.I worked in universities for 17 years, providing a leadership role within a University counselling, wellbeing and mental health service for nine years, leading student counselling and managing a workplace counselling service.

I have continued to develop as a therapist, as I am committed and passionate about what I do. I originally trained as an integrative counsellor/psychotherapist and have training in person-centred, psychodynamic, CBT and third wave approaches, creative therapies, coaching, supervision and leadership training. I also have an interest and training in expressive therapies, therapeutic writing, organisational dynamics, mediation, existential crisis, relationship issues and conflict resolution.

I am skilled in working with a number of issues such as anxiety, relationship issues, bereavement, ill-health, depression, meaninglessness, loneliness, low self-worth, self-injury, loss (of others, role, meaning, values, purpose, 'empty nest', divorce, health, status), identity, family and spiritual issues. I am also skilled with explorations of neurodiversity, for individuals and in relationships - but am not a diagnostician.

I am also an experienced trainer and provided consultancy on wellbeing issues and crisis coordination for a large institution.

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

I am registered with UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) and senior accredited member with BACP (British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy) and a member of SEA (Society of Existential Analysis), and a member of UPCA (Universities Psychotherapy & Counselling Association.