About Emma
Emma Dalgleish is a UK-based counsellor with 22 years of professional experience. She works with people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and a wide range of emotional struggles. Emma aims to offer respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care in each session.
She adapts her approach to suit the needs of the person in front of her. Sessions focus on understanding what matters most to the client and finding practical ways to move forward.
How Emma works
Conversations are held in a calm, non-judgemental way that encourages honesty and reflection. Emma has supported people with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction concerns, and issues around self-esteem and body image. She also helps with parenting strain, sleep and eating difficulties, career stress, and coping with life changes.
Additional areas of focus include attachment issues, adoption and foster care, and challenges related to neurodiversity. Her practice draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred listening, existential questions about meaning, relationship-focused methods, and hypnotherapy where suitable. Emma matches these methods to each person’s goals rather than using a single fixed style.
People can expect a straightforward, empathic way of working that balances listening with practical steps. Sessions aim to help people understand their patterns, make clearer choices, and build more satisfying connections in life.
Emma lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Emma works with
The areas below are the ones Emma selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can explore in online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on the way early relationships shape how people connect now. It helps when patterns of closeness or distance cause repeated conflict or pain. Client-centred therapy centres on the person’s experience and uses active listening and empathy to help people find their own solutions and build self-trust. Existential therapy invites questions about meaning, choice, and values and can help when life transitions or uncertainty feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emma will discuss different methods with each person and decide together what fits best. That collaborative process looks at goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful in early sessions, and can be adjusted over time.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and seeing facial cues, while phone sessions can suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief reflections between appointments or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life, or other commitments and let people choose the format that feels most manageable.
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