Susannah Goward
Creative Counselling for Adults and Children
Susannah is an integrative counsellor with a person-centred core approach. She offers a safe, non-judgemental space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings. With over 25 years of experience working with children, families, and adults, she uses various therapeutic and creative techniques tailored to your needs to help you uncover your inner strengths.
Her practice is grounded in empathy and a desire to genuinely understand and connect to your thoughts and feelings, allowing you to express yourself without fear of criticism. Alongside this, she has available a range of creative materials eg sand tray, modelling clay, puppets and small world play, to help young people and adults connect to their imagination and explore narratives and emotions. Through this collaborative process, you can gain deeper self-awareness, overcome personal challenges, and achieve greater emotional well-being and resilience.
Her work is underpinned by the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapist’s (BACP's) Ethical Framework, ensuring she practises safely, ethically and to high professional standards. She is fully insured and hold an enhanced DBS certificate.
She is qualified to work with adults, young People and children and is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). As well as growing a private practice, she works in schools supporting children and young people with a variety of needs. She has experience within the NHS as an honorary counsellor for Macmillan working with adult cancer patients and their families. She has extensive experience in supporting adults and children with special needs and have worked with a variety of issues such as grief, loss, anxiety, depression, self-harm, separation and family dynamics.
Qualifications
CPCAB Level 5 Diploma Counselling Children and Young People
CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling Adults
1st Class Honours degree in Education
Recent Additional Training in
Self-Harm
Suicide Prevention - Papyrus
Safeguarding
LGBTQIA+ awareness
Availability
I am currently available on Tuesday afternoons at Meadows Wellbeing.
Additional Information
It is important that you find a counsellor that feels comfortable for you, someone who you trust and can put you at ease. If you are interested in working together with you or your child, please get in touch and we can arrange an initial telephone conversation.