SUSY RUDKIN COACHING
Mindset & Self-Leadership Coach
About Susy
Many capable professionals appear confident on the outside but privately wrestle with overthinking, self-doubt and the pressure to always get things right.
Hi, I’m Susy.
I’m a mindset and self-leadership coach based in the UK, working online with professionals internationally. I work with thoughtful, capable professionals who want to quiet the mental noise and lead themselves with greater clarity and confidence.
Many of the people I work with are intelligent, conscientious and deeply reflective. They care about doing meaningful work and making good decisions. But that same conscientiousness can easily tip into mental spiralling, second-guessing and a persistent sense that they should somehow be doing better.
My role is to help them step out of those patterns and rebuild a steadier relationship with themselves — one rooted in clarity, self-trust and calm decision-making.
My Story
Before training as a counsellor and coach, I spent over two decades working as a freelance television camera operator filming live sport.
My job was simple in principle but demanding in practice: stay focused, track what matters, and capture the moment clearly while everything else moves around you.
Looking back, I realise that work taught me something that now sits at the heart of my coaching.
Where we place our focus shapes what we see.
When our attention is constantly pulled toward fear, doubt or imagined worst-case scenarios, the mind creates a distorted picture of reality. But when we learn how to shift our internal focus, the entire frame changes.
In many ways, the work I do now is about helping people adjust the lens through which they view themselves and their lives.
Early work supporting others
After qualifying, I spent several years working in a range of supportive roles in both the UK and Canada.
While living in Victoria, British Columbia, I worked with Cool Aid supporting people experiencing homelessness, and as a residential house parent supporting international students aged 11–19 who were living far from home for the first time.
Alongside these roles I ran a small private counselling practice and created a mobile counselling service that operated from a converted campervan, which I renovated myself.
The idea was simple: counselling in beautiful outdoor locations that felt safe, private and accessible.
Despite initial scepticism from others, the service quickly became fully booked through word-of-mouth referrals.
It remains one of the projects I’m most proud of.
Returning to UK
In 2014 I returned to Bristol and established a face-to-face counselling practice while also providing telephone counselling through an Employee Assistance Programme.
During this time I also worked as a support worker in homelessness hostels and later trained as a counsellor for children and young people, working with students at Hanham Woods Academy.
Altogether these experiences gave me a broad and practical understanding of the challenges people face in their lives.
Why I became a coach
Over time I noticed something important.
While counselling can be incredibly valuable, many of my clients made their biggest shifts when our focus moved toward the present — understanding the patterns shaping their current experience and learning practical ways to change them.
This realisation led me to retrain with iPEC and become a Certified Professional Coach through their Energy Leadership™ coaching programme.
Today my work combines the depth of counselling training with the forward-focused structure of coaching.
Today I work with professionals who want to move beyond cycles of overthinking and self-doubt and build a steadier, more confident way of leading themselves.
Watching people rediscover their clarity, confidence and sense of inner authority is the greatest privilege of my work.
Experience & Training
• 25+ years professional experience across media, counselling and coaching
• Certified Professional Coach – iPEC (Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching) (2016)
• Energy Leadership Index (ELI) Master Practitioner (2016)
• NLP Practitioner (2015) and Timeline Therapy Practitioner (2015)
• Post graduate Qualification in counselling Children and Young People (2014)
• Integrative Counsellor – University of the West of England (UWE) (2011)
• BA (Hons) 2:1 Radio, Film and Television / Art, University of Kent
• Professional counselling experience with adults, young people and international students
• Professional experience supporting individuals in homelessness services and education settings
Contact
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.
+44 7341 160208