About Emily
Emily Whalley offers a warm, reflective counselling style rooted in attachment and client-centred work. She draws on mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas to help people who feel anxious, stuck, or disconnected. Emily holds BACP registration and practises in the United Kingdom while working with clients internationally in English.
She focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps people facing trauma, addictions, grief and changes linked to work or relationships.
How Emily works
Intimacy, communication and commitment issues are common topics in her sessions. Emily aims to create a steady space for exploring how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviours. Sessions often look at attachment patterns, boundaries and how people respond under stress.
Mindfulness techniques are used to notice thoughts and bodily signals in the moment. Her work suits people who want to understand themselves better and build more reliable coping skills. Conversations can bring more clarity about family of origin issues, abandonment, dissociation and identity concerns.
Practical steps and reflective exploration are balanced in each session. With three years of experience, Emily has worked in therapeutic organisations and online with people from around the world. She is BACP registered and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions through the platform.
Emily lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How attachment and mindfulness work online
Attachment-based work pays attention to how early relationships influence current bonds. Online sessions can gently map out patterns of closeness, abandonment fears and communication habits so clients see how past experiences shape present responses. Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of the process and offers a supportive, non-judgemental space to speak and be heard; this helps with issues like low self-worth, anxiety and relationship struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Emily will collaborate with each person to agree what feels most useful, adjusting methods as needs and goals evolve. That way work can move between understanding history, noticing present sensations with mindfulness, and trying practical changes together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for deeper explorations and visual cues, phone sessions suit times when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel and family life while keeping a steady therapeutic relationship with registered or accredited professionals.
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