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SUE SEAGER Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Supervisor
Sue is an trained, experienced Counsellor, Psychotherapist and qualified Supervisor who is an Accredited Member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy 
Society (MNCPS Acc.). She is bound by their code of ethical practice and follows high professional standards. This includes a complaints and concerns procedure . Our professional standards are explained here. Sue holds enhanced DBS certification and regularly updates her Safeguarding knowledge and training.
As well as working in private practice, Sue provides clinical supervision for therapists in a a variety of other settings including in a charity supporting survivors of abuse and in educational settings supervising staff with pastoral and safeguarding responsibilities. Sue has worked as a tutor in counselling skills, teaching the person-centred approach at an FE college. Previously Sue has worked as an affiliated counsellor to the Psychology department of a Young Offender Institute, and as a senior practitioner and for the national children’s charity Barnardo's counselling vulnerable teenagers at risk of exploitation. She has worked in school counselling roles in the state system and as part of a counselling team at a prestigious independent school offering support to pupils and staff.
In private practice, Sue works with adults and young people from the age of 16 to offer support with everyday issues such as anxiety and low mood as well as major life experiences such as loss and relationship breakdown. Sue has particular experience in working with 'teenage issues' and with psychological trauma and dissociation including working with abuse survivors. Sue is a member of the Childhood Trauma Recovery Network UK, a network of trauma-informed individuals whose purpose is to support people by offering help to recover from childhood trauma, and to ensure that professionals are trauma-informed.
Sue uses the person-centred listening skills of her originally training in combination with tools and approaches that meet the needs of individual clients. This can include CBT, solution-focused approaches, attachment-based approaches, mindfulness and a trauma informed approach to working with complex abuse and dissociation. Sue has undergone additional training in working remotely and can offer phone or online counselling where face to face meeting is not possible. As a trainer Sue offers a unique blend of creativity, enthusiasm, knowledge and facilitation skills drawn from her work as a counsellor, prior experience as a trainer for a national charity, her private sector marketing career and service delivery experience in Children's Services in the public sector.
- Establishing a countywide anti-bullying project for a local authority
- Service-user engagement lead for a drug and alcohol charity
- Regional trainer for the Kidscape national DfE funded Bullying Intervention Training programme (B.I.T)
- Training the trainer Ambassador for CEOP (The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)
- Setting up a counselling service within a Barnardo’s project for young people at risk of sexual exploitation
- Lecturing and tutoring in counselling skills at a further education college
- Setting up and facilitating supervision groups for counsellors and supervisors
Sue is a member of:
UKPTSThe Bucks Domestic Violence and Abuse Champions Network for
Reducing the Risk The
Childhood Trauma Recovery Network UK 
