Starting to look for a therapist, perhaps for the first time, can be daunting and for good reason: all the research points to the importance of the relationship with the therapist as part of the healing process. Emma provides a safe, supportive, and confidential environment for clients to explore whatever they bring at their own pace. She believes that, given the right environment, people have an inbuilt ability to grow and flourish.
Some of her clients come with difficult or painful life experiences. Some sense that they have patterns that are habitual and difficult to get out of, and that are making them unhappy. Some clients feel low and just don’t know why. Others want to embark on a journey of exploration that will allow them to find a richer, more fulfilling way of being with others and in the world.
As a trauma-informed therapist, she has an approach that ensures you draw on resources that support you on your journey with her (and outside the therapy room). This ensures that, when you are ready, you feel that you have one foot ‘on dry land’ and the other brave enough to dip its toes into understanding and healing the more challenging parts of your life. She is trained in recent developments in psychotherapy, in modalities that have emerged from the more traditional aspects of her original training. These include the increasingly popular ‘parts’ work approach of IFS (Internal Family Systems) and recent developments in EMDR reprocessing. She uses these scientifically-proven tools within a robust integrative approach that is supported by psychodynamic, existential, and body-psychotherapy approaches. This is a holistic approach that supports work with the whole person: thoughts, belief systems, emotions, and how these may be experienced and reprocessed. Clients subsequently feel more in tune with themselves, with more choice, and are able to approach life with a new perspective, calm, and purpose.
Emma has had success supporting people with issues such as (but not limited to): complex trauma (C-PTSD) and single-incident trauma (PTSD), anxiety, depression, addiction, disordered eating, neurodiversity, OCD, coercive control, bullying, bereavement, parenting, issues around sexuality, gender, relationships, menopause, and life transitions.
She has a particular interest in working with people who have experienced family members as fragile, distracted, aggressive, or abusive. She offers support with immediate life issues, as well as the opportunity to deepen awareness and explore new possibilities of being in the world.
She is constantly upgrading her knowledge by attending workshops, clinical discussion groups, and she has regular supervision with supervisors aligned to her values. She is committed to working ethically in accordance with BACP guidelines.
Training and Qualifications
Emma is a BACP-registered and accredited psychotherapeutic counsellor.
Previous Experience
Memberships
Availability
She works on Tuesdays and Thursdays (and occasionally other days or online).
Working Together
She offers a free 15-20 minute phone call for you to get a sense of what it would be like to work with her and also to start exploring what is bringing you to therapy. If you feel comfortable and would like to continue, you can arrange to start therapy with an introductory session when she can introduce you to the framework of therapy, and together you can start to get more of a sense of where you are, what your story is and what you would like to be different. Ongoing sessions are 50 minutes, weekly, with regular breaks.
Fees
£70 (two concessionary spaces available).