Susan (Susy) Putnam
Calm, reflective support for life changes
About Susan
Susan (Susy) Putnam supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and life changes. She helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her practice also covers trauma and abuse, body image, attachment and abandonment issues, and challenges linked to multicultural or LGBT experiences.
Susy creates a warm and empathic space where people can talk through what matters to them. She offers a reflective, non-judgemental approach and aims to keep the person at the centre of the work.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match each person's comfort and readiness. Over seven years she has worked in different countries and settings, including educational roles and teaching in prisons. Her background includes significant experience with neurodiversity, particularly ADHD and high-functioning autism, and with people from LGBT backgrounds and their family members.
Her way of working is integrative. That means she draws on several approaches to suit the issue in front of her. Guided visualisation is one tool she uses alongside listening and reflective conversation to help people make sense of their experience.
Susan holds BACP registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, described here as BACP. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. If someone prefers creativity in therapy, Susy’s experience in education and creative work shapes how she supports exploration and problem solving.
Beginning therapy can feel daunting. She invites people to take the first step and offers steady, compassionate support through the process.
What Susan works with
How Susan works
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Sessions & fees
Approach, online support and how it helps
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and early bonds. It helps people understand how past connections affect current trust, closeness and reactions in relationships. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the centre of each session. The counsellor offers empathic listening and unconditional acceptance so people can explore feelings and find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about needs, goals and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try first. That collaborative plan can change as the work unfolds to fit what is most helpful.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from wherever someone is based. Phone sessions offer a simpler option that needs less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats add flexibility and can help fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on meaningful therapeutic work.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
