School Counsellor

Susan Smithurst (BA Hons) has postgraduate awards in counselling, emotional education/ coaching. She is also an advanced Grief Loss Specialist. Her experience spans over 30 years in delivering counselling and specialist mental health outcomes. Susan has worked and lectured on these areas in both colleges and universities and she has supported schools in working with children and young people with disabilities, SEN and neurodiversity.

Susan's methodology incorporates counselling/ mental health coaching and solution focussed therapy to support personal development and growth for those she works with.

Susan uses a strengths based approach in underpinning her therapeutic outcomes as gleaned from her professional training and personal life experience of being a sibling and parent herself.