About Emily
Emily Foord offers a collaborative, person-centred approach that draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She aims to help people face challenges and make changes that feel real and lasting. Emily presents therapy as a paced, non-judgemental process where clients set the direction and she supports their self-exploration.
She has a BSc in Psychology and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling, and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
How Emily works
Her background includes work in residential addiction and mental health settings where she ran group work, individual sessions and psycho-educational programmes. She also has experience in charitable counselling services. Emily focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions and depression, and helps people with relationship and intimacy-related issues.
She also supports those struggling with parenting strain, family conflict, anger, self-esteem, and career changes. Additional areas of focus include abandonment and attachment concerns, codependency, compulsion and process addictions, and issues around guilt, shame and isolation. Her approach is practical and steady.
She uses strategies that help people break repeating patterns and build resilience. Sessions emphasise reflection, self-compassion and manageable steps forward. People choose Emily when they want calm guidance through difficult times.
She works with clients in English and offers online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
What Emily works with
The areas below are the ones Emily selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Emily’s approaches work online
Emily uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional reflection. One commonly used approach involves motivational interviewing, which helps people clarify what matters to them and find internal reasons to change behaviours such as process addictions or substance use. Another approach draws on principles from dialectical behavioural methods to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills for panic, overwhelming anxiety or intense anger.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person’s concerns, discuss options and try methods that fit the client’s goals and preferences. Together they adjust techniques over time to find what helps best.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when more connection is useful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity of care regardless of location.
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