Susan Edwards Clinical Psychology
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Susan specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders including:

Anxiety
  • Generalised anxiety (excessive worry)
  • Social phobia (social anxiety and shyness)
  • Panic attacks & agoraphobia (avoiding certain places due to a fear of panicking)
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder (intrusive thoughts, rituals, hoarding, & other compulsions)
  • Specific fears (such as flying, elevators, spiders, heights, dentists, medical procedures)
  • Health anxiety

Grief & Loss (including...)
  • Death of a loved one
  • Loss of an important relationship
  • Miscarriage, stillbirth or death of a child
  • Loss of a job
  • Loss of health or physical ability, being diagnosed with a life-changing illness
  • Divorce & separation
  • Loss of a patient 
  • Loss of a pet
  • Life changes and adjustment, including leaving home, leaving school, retirement, children leaving home, moving to an unfamiliar location, becoming a parent 
  • Disenfranchised grief (for example, infertility, termination of a pregnancy, dementia in a loved one, being single when desire is for a relationship and family, death of an ex-partner or an abusive partner)

Other areas
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder and historical, single-event and recurrent trauma
  • Depression
  • Stress management
  • ​Assertiveness and conflict management
  • ​Managing challenging family dynamics
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