Susan Smith

My name is Susan, pronouns she/her. I am currently engaged in my counselling private practice and offering other voluntary work. In a past life, I was a teacher by profession. My focus as a practitioner is on spirituality and identity with a non-pathologising approach to distress reactions and responses. I am an Adlerian (ASIIP) qualified psychotherapeutic counsellor, and a pantheist. I can remember the mood, vigour and heartfelt hope of the sixties while growing up in the Cheshire countryside, some still remains but I witnessed the destruction/transformation of many loved sites. ASIIP stands for Adlerian Society (UK) Institute for Individual Psychology where Individual is a representation, too, of indivisible aspects. People co-exist in relation to groups and others in multiple worlds. Life is holistic in nature. I notice how my views find allegiance with the group Therapy and Social Change where ‘Wild Therapist,’ Nick Totton argues that Justice is Indivisible. Adlerian psychologists pay attention to early recollections believing they are significant to lifestyle choices. One of mine that is pertinent to this moment is the impact of a book introduced to me in my very early years, about a rabbit with wings that joined a group of wild rabbits to drive away big men and large machinery cutting down a wood. I have been ‘Through the Door,’ a Climate Psychology Alliance workshop and returned with renewed commitment as an activist and glad to be able to join this directory.