Suzannah Chick

Please note I mainly work online via Zoom, please see my website for current availability. I also see clients on Thursday afternoons/evenings for in-person sessions from my room in Guildford, sessions cost £100 each. 

Thanks so much for visiting my page. My name is Suzie and I am a qualified therapist, and registered member of BACP. 

A little about me...after graduating from university in London, I trained as an accountant, later specialising in Forensic work with one of the Big Four firms. After 10 years of working hard in the City, I experienced the inevitable burnout. Through this process, a breakdown resulted in a breakthrough. I decided the corporate career ladder wasn't for me and to head in a different direction. 

I've always been fascinated about why we do/say/feel/think the things we do and I wanted to help others like I had been helped when I was struggling. And so I went back to school and graduated as a qualified psychotherapist and a registered member of BACP and UKCP six years later. And the rest as they say is history!

I named my practice, Compass Counselling, as sometimes we can feel a little lost in our lives. We all need some space and time to help find ourselves and potentially embark on some new and exciting directions.  As your therapist, I will act as guide or compass, to help explore your way through the fog to a new horizon. Through our work together, you can have the much needed space to reflect and process where you are in your life, how you got there and importantly where you may want to go next. 

I’ve worked successfully with a wide range of issues including burn-out at work, anxiety, divorce, depression, narcissistic parenting and childhood sexual abuse (to name but a few).

I don’t prescribe to one specific area, preferring to work with what you decide to bring to therapy, thereby embracing the wide diversity of issues which can arise out of our varied lives.

Once you’ve made contact with me, we’ll either arrange an initial session or maybe have a brief telephone call to start with. Some clients prefer to have a call as a way to touch base with me without the commitment of attending a face to face session. The call is free and you are under no obligation to proceed with therapy.

In our first session, we’ll assess what issues are going on for you (e.g. relationships, family, health etc) and I’ll gather some basic contact information too. At the end of this first session, we’ll agree a way forward and cover any questions you may have.

After that we’ll meet every week for your sessions (with regular reviews along the way, the first one being on your sixth session).