Susan (Susy) Putnam , BACP

Susan (Susy) Putnam is a counsellor with seven years of experience supporting people from diverse backgrounds. She offers a gentle, reflective environment designed to help clients navigate unexpected life events with kindness and self-compassion. Susy places the client at the centre of the work and adapts her approach to what each person finds most comfortable.

Working from an integrative perspective, she draws on multiple theories and techniques to meet specific needs, often incorporating guided visualisation in collaboration with clients to help find a way forward. Her practice is warm and empathic, welcoming LGBTQI clients and their family members, and she has substantial experience with neurodiversity, including ADHD and high functioning autism.

Susan brings a creative background and a history in education to her therapeutic work, having worked in a variety of countries and previously taught in prisons for several years. She emphasizes a compassionate, client-led pace and supports people through relationship challenges, grief, trauma, parenting concerns, career changes, and many other life transitions.

She holds the BACP credential - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. For more information visit www.susyputnamcounselling.co.uk

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Susan uses a blend of proven approaches to tailor work to each person's needs. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds influence current connections and emotional responses, which can be useful for relationship issues, abandonment concerns, and intimacy-related challenges.

Client-Centered Therapy places the person at the heart of the process, offering nonjudgmental listening and encouragement so clients can explore their feelings and find their own solutions. This approach supports self-esteem, life changes, and coping with stress. Mindfulness Therapy brings simple awareness practices into sessions to help manage anxiety, increase emotional regulation, and build grounding skills.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Susan works with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, adjusting methods as the work evolves so clients remain in control of their therapy journey.

Online sessions - via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support across distances. These options offer flexibility in scheduling, allow clients to participate from familiar settings, and enable ongoing therapeutic work for both local and international clients.