Suzanne Grabowski, ACA

Suzanne Grabowski is an ACA counsellor practising in South Australia with three years' experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, family concerns, self-esteem problems and coping with life changes. Her background also includes working with abandonment and attachment issues, blended family concerns, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.

She trained in counselling, community services and nursing before moving into counselling work. That mix of health and social care informs how she looks at emotional and physical wellbeing together. Suzanne frames difficulties as connected patterns rather than one-off problems, which can be useful when family history keeps showing up in adult life.

Sessions are conversational and practical. Suzanne uses elements from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts and feelings, practise different responses, and test out new ways of relating. She also draws on client-centred principles to focus on each person's concerns and goals.

People who want to look at how childhood roles and family expectations still affect them may find her approach straightforward. She works in short, manageable steps and encourages practical coping strategies as well as reflection on relationships and patterns from family of origin.

Suzanne describes herself as down-to-earth and supportive. She aims to help people build confidence in handling current pressures and to develop clearer ways of communicating and setting boundaries where needed.

How her approaches translate to online sessions