Hi, I’m Susannah - I’m glad you’re here.
Maybe you’re considering whether therapy might help you with what you’re going through right now. Maybe you came across my work another way and want to find out more about what I do. Or maybe you want to reach out to me about some work, writing, or a collaboration.
Whatever it is, I’m glad you’re here.
Let me introduce myself a little more. I’m a HCPC Practitioner Psychologist & BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist in the UK, and an individual and relationship therapist. I feel truly fortunate to work in a profession I love.
To read more about my qualifications and specialist training, have a look below.
For therapy enquiries, click the button below. For writing and professional collaborations, email hello@grantpsychology.com. Either way, I really look forward to hearing from you.
Dr Susannah Grant (she/her), DPsych, BSc (Hons), PGDip
HCPC reg. Practitioner Psychologist, BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist & IFS-Trained Therapist
13+ years experience working with mental health and relationship difficulties
NHS, charitable and private practice experience
My Approach
I work from a pluralistic framework, both evidence-based and relational.
This means that when we work together, I draw on different therapy models I have trained in to fit what you are seeking therapy for. Therapy is collaborative and flexible and I offer short, medium and longer term therapy. I hold the therapeutic relationship at the heart of my practice, and believe that human relationships play an important part in our daily lives.
I consider health and well-being through a biopsychosocial framework. So often we can blame ourselves for what we are going through, when a more helpful way of viewing our struggles can be found by considering the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio-environmental factors. I also hold an intersectional lens to therapy and the ways oppression (such as sexism, ableism, racism, classism, transphobia, homophobia and bi+phobia) impact lived experience. I’m committed to ongoing study of therapy as an anti-oppressive practice.
As a GSRD (gender, sex & relationship diversity) informed practitioner, my practice is inclusive, and based on the principle that no gender, sex (sexuality or biological) or relationship structure is better, more valid, or preferable than another.
Qualifications & Continued Professional Development
Qualifications
Professional Doctorate DPsych, Counselling Psychology, City University London (models of therapy included CBT, ACT, person centred, existential, psychodynamic)
Post Graduate Diploma, Compulsive Sexual Behaviours, Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology (evidence-based psycho-sexological approach, non-addiction model)
IFS Training (Level 1), IFS Institute & EMDR, Richman EMDR Training
BSc (hons) Psychology, Manchester University
Continued Professional Development
I have completed numerous continued professional development trainings and workshops over the last 20 years, the following is a selection:
Coaching: ACT in the workplace; People on Purpose Facilitator; Personal Development training facilitator spanning ten years.
Individuals: Working with adults who attended Boarding School as children, including relational trauma and bullying in childhood and the impact on adult relationships (partners, children and work colleagues) and personal struggles (for example, overworking and compulsive behaviours); Gender Sex and Relationship Diversity including working trans, non-binary and gender fluid clients; monosexual/romantic (heterosexual, gay and lesbian), plurisexual/romantic (bi, pan, omni, fluid, poly for example), asexual/romantic (ace spectrum, grey, demi for example) clients; multi-partner, polyamory, kink & BDSM. This includes training related to transphobia; homophobia and biphobia and the impact of microagressions in therapy. Model specific training, including ACT, CBT, mindfulness, schema therapy, sexology and safe trauma informed therapy.
Relationships: year long advanced diploma in couples and relationship therapy with NAOS; year long developmental Model of Couples therapy with Couples Institute New York. Specific modules relating to infidelity and affairs, communication difficulties, compulsive sexual behaviours, opening up / closing down a dyad relationship and working with GSRD in relationship therapy. This includes working with mixed orientation relationships, polyamorous / ethical non monogamous relationships, and BDSM and kink.
Brief Bio
I have offered psychological therapy to adults with a range of mental health challenges within primary and secondary care NHS mental health settings, as well as hospital health care settings with adults experiencing physical health difficulties. In the private sector, I have worked with people focusing on mental health struggles, relationship difficulties, compulsive sexual behaviour, and GSRD aware therapy. Always interested in the ways psychology can be taken outside the clinic room, I have presented psychology related topics in a variety of settings. These have included: 'The importance of empathy when consulting patients' to junior medical doctors, 'How to engage Millennials (Gen Y) in the workplace' to business leaders, 'The use of CBT within the context of physical health diagnoses' to parents, and 'Considerations for Couples Therapists when working with Ex-Boarders & Partners' to counselling professionals. I recently contributed a chapter on bi+ aware therapy to Pink Therapy’s new GSRD books due out in 2023.
Prior to completing my doctoral training, I worked in the City for a management consultancy focusing on employee wellbeing and best practices; and my experience within the personal development field spans over 20 years. I have a long held interest in yoga therapy for mental and emotional wellness, holistic well-being and expressive therapy models (movement, art and music), usually delivered in community settings.