About Emily
Emily Wilks helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship problems, trauma and major life changes. She is Emily Wilks, BACP, and she speaks plain about what brings someone to therapy. Sessions aim to make it easier to decide what you want and how to live more in line with that.
The opening conversation focuses on what matters to you now. Emily uses a collaborative, person-centred style. She listens for the patterns that affect day-to-day life, such as avoidance, codependency or difficulty trusting others.
How Emily works
Together clients look at current feelings and behaviours and where those may have come from. The pace is set by the client so difficult topics are explored when you feel ready. Many people bring worries about relationships, commitment, jealousy, or communication problems.
Others want to understand how childhood experiences of neglect, abandonment or abuse shape their choices today. Sessions also address concerns like paranoia, guilt, shame and men’s issues in straightforward language. Emily aims to help people notice small changes that make life feel steadier.
She encourages practical steps alongside reflection, for example clearer boundaries, safer ways to express needs, and rebuilding self-love. Progress is measured by what feels different in daily life rather than by technical labels. Work is offered in English from the United Kingdom.
Emily has three years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled to suit your timing.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Paranoia
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Emily uses evidence-based psychotherapeutic approaches that focus on relationships and personal history. A person-centred approach involves careful, non-judgemental listening and reflecting what you say back so you can better understand your feelings; it helps with self-esteem, decision-making and emotional clarity. A psychodynamic-style way of working looks at past relationships and patterns to uncover how they influence present behaviours and reactions, which can be useful for attachment issues, codependency and repeating relationship cycles. These approaches are offered in straightforward language to make them easy to use in everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with you and choose methods based on your needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that adapts over time as your goals change and progress becomes clearer.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when tone and body language matter. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing thoughts down or need asynchronous contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and daily routines, while still working with registered or accredited professionals and experienced therapists.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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