Susan Jackson

Susan Jackson is a dramatherapist with ten years of professional experience and registrations with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, anger, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and addiction. Her manner is warm and compassionate and she aims to help clients find their own strengths when life feels overwhelming.

Her background combines arts-based work with talking therapies. Sessions can include creative activities such as movement, music, writing or drawing when a person wants to try them. Susan also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and hypnotherapy alongside dramatherapy techniques to support practical changes in thinking and behaviour.

Susan describes her approach as collaborative. She invites people to lead the story of their lives while she offers structure, listening and gentle challenges where helpful. The focus is on building a trusting relationship, with space to explore emotions, behaviours and patterns that cause distress.

People come to her for practical tools as well as emotional processing. She can help with sleep difficulties, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, low self-esteem, career stress, and coping with life changes including caregiving and chronic illness. Work may include looking at attachment, communication and control issues that keep problems repeating.

Sessions are paced to each person’s needs and preferences. Susan encourages small, achievable steps so clients can test new ways of responding and notice gradual change. She welcomes questions and prepares clear next steps after each meeting.

How these approaches fit with online therapy

Susan works from dramatherapy and combines it with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and hypnotherapy when helpful. Dramatherapy invites creative expression through movement, music, drawing or writing to access feelings that can be hard to put into words; it can help with trauma, grief and emotional regulation. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours to reduce anxiety or improve sleep and mood. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to support change in habits, trauma responses or stress reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Susan will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels useful. Together they decide whether to use creative exercises, CBT techniques or hypnotherapy elements and can adapt over time as progress is made.

Session formats are not detailed in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around a busy day, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when that suits a schedule. It can also make creative activities possible in different ways, for example using simple movement, writing or drawing at home and then discussing the experience with the therapist.