About Susan Kinder counselling & therapy services

I am a highly experienced BACP Accredited counsellor and psychotherapist, currently working mainly as a private practitioner with individuals, couples and young people (aged 10 yrs and above). My original training was with Relate where I became a fully qualified relationship counsellor, young people’s counsellor, counselling supervisor and practice consultant. I have also spent many years working for the NHS as a mental health therapist and staff counsellor. As well as working for private individuals, I also take on short-term contracts with corporate clients and EAPs.

I offer short and long-term interventions based on talking therapies. My approach is integrative. This means that I draw on different counselling and therapeutic approaches in order to work in a unique and flexible way with you and the issues (past, present and future) you bring into the counselling room. I also offer Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This approach provides a framework for you to look at solutions to the problem that are more helpful than your current coping strategies.

I offer an initial assessment session of one hour. This is for both you and me to make a decision about whether we want to work together. If we do decide to work together this will usually be on a weekly basis.

I work in Keighley, Dewsbury, and Cleckheaton. The normal fee for assessment sessions and on-going therapy is £60 per hour, but if this level of payment is unmanageable for you, I would be happy to look at the possibility of offering you reduced fees.

Whoever you are, I offer you a safe and welcoming service designed around you and the issues you wish to explore.

My training, work experience and any achievement

I am Accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (Registered Member MBACP).
I am a fully qualified relate relationship counsellor and clinical supervisor.
I have an MA in Counselling from York St John University and studied CBT at the University of York.
I have worked as a counsellor in schools and in the NHS as a Mental Health Therapist and Staff Counsellor.
I am an accredited (BSCPC) IAPT Practitioner and Supervisor CTfD.
I hold a current enhanced CRB check.

Further Information

People come to see me for a variety of reasons:

Counselling and Psychotherapy
relationship and family difficulties
bereavement
trauma,
loss,
work-home balance
health
difficulties at work/school/college/university
childhood emotional and sexual abuse
domestic violence
workplace stress
workplace wellbeing
personal development

CBT
depression
generalised anxiety
PTSD
OCD
eating disorders
social anxiety
phobias
health anxiety
panic attacks
agoraphobia
low self-esteem.