For Emma, building a trusting and collaborative relationship is key to a positive therapeutic experience. She offers a compassionate, non-judgemental and strengths based approach.
Book a sessionEmma is a Counselling Psychologist and has core training in CBT, Humanistic and Psychodynamic approaches. She works in an integrative way, drawing upon a range of evidence based therapeutic approaches according to the needs of the clients she is supporting. For Emma, building a trusting and collaborative relationship is key to a positive therapeutic experience. Throughout her work with both adults and young people, she offers a compassionate, non-judgemental approach that supports clients to find the courage to explore difficult things. Emma works with her clients to identify difficulties and agree goals for their work together, supporting them to develop insight and move towards change where this is appropriate. She has particular experience working with children, young people and parents. Emma is passionate about early intervention and supporting people at the earliest stages to reduce the risks of longer term distress. Emma is also trained to work with adults and has been providing individual therapy over the past 4 years in independent practice. She has a focus on supporting people to find tools and strategies that enable them to maintain their emotional well-being outside of therapy and takes a strengths based approach. She specialises in supporting people with anxiety presentations (including social, separation, health & general anxiety, panic, phobias and OCD), low mood, stress and transitions and low self-esteem. She is also specially trained in Comprehensive Behavioural Intervention for Tics. She also has experience supporting people with a diagnosis of, or suspected, Autism and ADHD. Currently Emma works as Specialist Counselling Psychologist within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, where she holds a role alongside her private practice. Having undertaken a postgraduate certificate in clinical supervision, she has supervised qualified, trainee and assistant Psychologists.