About Susannah
Susannah "Susy" Rudkin helps people who feel stuck by easing stress, anxiety, low self‑esteem and relationship strain. She supports those coping with trauma, grief, addiction, mood difficulties and life changes. Susy combines practical tools with attention to the body to help clients find calmer ways of being.
Susy works in a direct, down‑to‑earth way. Sessions focus on noticing what keeps someone stuck and practising simple steps to change it. She uses somatic techniques to connect thoughts and bodily sensations, alongside cognitive and acceptance‑based methods to shift unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Her background includes 17 years of work in the field and BACP registration, which guides her professional practice in the UK. She draws on a mix of client‑centred listening, cognitive behavioural strategies and attachment‑informed ideas to tailor sessions to each person. In practical terms she offers conversation and exercises that are present‑focused and aimed at building everyday coping skills.
That can mean breathing and body awareness, choice experiments, values work, or role‑playing new ways to speak in a relationship. The emphasis is on change that can be tried between sessions. Susy provides online sessions by video, phone, live chat or messaging.
She explains how therapy works, helps set clear goals and works collaboratively so people feel they have a say in the pace and direction of the work.
How Susy blends therapy approaches online
Somatic work focuses on how the body holds stress and emotion. It uses gentle body awareness, breathing and movement to help people notice where tension sits and to try new, calmer responses. This can help with anxiety, trauma responses and emotional reactivity.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful actions towards those values while learning to relate differently to difficult feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes.
Attachment‑based ideas look at how early patterns shape current relationships and communication. These ideas can be used to practise new ways of connecting and to reduce repeating unhelpful patterns in close relationships.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Susy takes a collaborative stance and will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs with each person to decide which methods to try. That means sessions are adjusted over time as things change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options let people fit sessions around family and work, try shorter or more frequent contact, and continue the work even when travel is difficult. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to share exercises, lead body‑based practices and guide values or cognitive work in ways that suit the client.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English