Susan Blanchard, BACP

Susan Blanchard is a BACP registered person-centred counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, low confidence or relationship strain. Her approach aims to help clients make sense of difficult feelings and look for small, practical steps forward.

Susan has three years of therapeutic experience and has supported patients within NHS cancer services. She also has training and hands-on experience working with neurodiversity, including autism and Asperger syndrome. These roles have informed her understanding of long-term health concerns and complicated loss.

Her foundation is person-centred counselling, which focuses on listening and responding to each individual. Susan says that everyone is unique, so she adapts sessions to what a person needs. That might mean longer reflections, practical problem-solving, or a mix of both.

In sessions she aims to offer warmth, empathy and acceptance. The room is used as a calm place to untangle painful thoughts and behaviours. Work often covers negative thinking, self-criticism, attachment worries and communication problems.

Susan also helps people facing specific stresses such as caregiving strain, chronic illness, bereavement, body image concerns and commitment worries. She will collaborate with clients to set manageable goals and try out new ways of coping. To begin, readers should follow the site's Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire.

How therapeutic approaches shape online support

Person-centred counselling focuses on empathic listening and acceptance. It helps people feel understood and gradually build their own solutions to anxiety, low mood and relationship strain. This approach is often used when someone wants space to explore feelings without pressure.

Practical, evidence-based techniques can be added where useful to address patterns of negative thinking and self-criticism. These techniques involve noticing unhelpful thoughts, trying out alternative ways of thinking, and practising small new behaviours to test what works. They can be helpful for stress, health anxiety and problems with confidence.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that suit a person's needs, goals and preferences. This may mean adapting how sessions are run and which techniques are prioritised as therapy progresses.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around work, caregiving or treatment schedules and removing travel time. Online options can make it easier to maintain continuity of support during busy or changing lives. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, please confirm the available formats before booking so you can choose what fits your routine.