Susan Clayton, BACP

Susan Clayton is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She also supports clients with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, addiction issues and trauma. Susan uses straightforward, compassionate listening to help people begin to make small, practical changes.

She trained and works with approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Susan adapts sessions to each person, focusing on what will help most in day-to-day life. She keeps explanations plain and practical so clients can try things between meetings.

Susan has five years of clinical experience and holds BACP accreditation, which reflects her professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her background includes particular work with bereavement and loss, and she brings that experience to other kinds of life changes.

In sessions she pays attention to patterns of thinking and feeling, and to the ways relationships and attachment shape choices. She uses skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and client-centred listening when helpful, matching techniques to what a person needs now.

Susan welcomes people in English and accepts international clients. She aims to create a respectful space where people can talk things through, make sense of difficult emotions and identify manageable steps forward.

How these approaches translate to online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. It uses exercises that increase willingness to notice difficult thoughts and still act in line with goals, which can be practised between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and behaviour, and aims to build more secure ways of relating through discussion and reflective work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying small behavioural experiments to change mood and functioning over time.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their aims and preferences. That may mean combining techniques from different models and adjusting the pace and focus as progress is made.

Confirm the session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling around life commitments, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to continue work with a therapist while living abroad. Registered or accredited professionals can guide practical steps to structure sessions so they fit into everyday routines.