Susan Kinsella-Brice, BACP
Experienced counsellor blending somatic and talking therapies
About Susan
Susan Kinsella-Brice is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. She works with issues such as grief, trauma, low self-esteem, motivation and difficulties with intimacy or relationships. She uses a direct, compassionate style and treats people as the experts of their own story.
With 14 years of experience, Susan blends body-aware methods with talking therapies. She draws on somatic approaches to help people notice what their bodies are telling them.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred work to follow each person’s pace and focus conversations around their priorities. Susan includes cognitive behavioural techniques when people want practical ways to manage thoughts and reactions. Emotionally-focused ideas support people who want to understand and shift painful emotional patterns.
Existential themes appear when clients face big questions about meaning or direction. In sessions she aims for clear, simple steps you can try between meetings. That may mean breath or grounding exercises, short experiments to change a thought pattern, or naming feelings and patterns linked to past hurts.
She explains tools in everyday language and checks they feel useful. Susan is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, practising in the United Kingdom. Sessions are in English and she offers online formats to suit different needs.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Somatic therapy helps people notice how tension, breath and body sensations link to feelings and reactions. Online sessions can guide simple body-awareness practices, grounding and breath work to reduce stress and support recovery from trauma.Client-centred therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s pace. In online work this means the counsellor reflects what the client says, supports their choices and builds a trusting conversation that centres the client’s priorities.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, used alongside these approaches, gives practical ways to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioural changes. It is useful for managing anxiety, low mood and sleep problems and can be adapted easily to remote sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. This collaboration means techniques are tailored to what feels most helpful for the individual.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, parenting and daily life and allow different ways to connect depending on comfort and need.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English