About Emma
Emma Harvey is a counsellor with five years of experience supporting adults through difficult emotions. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Emma offers a calm, straightforward way of working that helps people feel understood quickly.
Emma focuses on common concerns such as stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps people dealing with ADHD, grief, eating issues, trauma and abuse, and questions around gender and sexual identity.
How Emma works
Practical problems like communication difficulties, blended family strains and parenting pressures are part of her day-to-day practice. Her approach blends client-centred listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural methods and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy. She draws on psychodynamic ideas and mindfulness to help people understand patterns and notice what gets in the way of change.
Sessions are collaborative and aim for clear, manageable steps. In a session Emma will listen first, then agree simple goals and ways to work towards them. She uses short-term, goal-focused work and longer conversations depending on the person’s needs.
People leave with ideas they can try between sessions. Emma offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. Sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging.
She works from the United Kingdom and follows professional standards set by BACP.
Emma lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they are. The therapist offers empathy and support while the client leads the pace, which can help when someone needs space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, behaviours and feelings. It involves trying practical exercises and simple experiments to change unhelpful patterns, which works well over video or phone because homework can be reviewed together.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving how people cope and communicate. Short skills practice and step-by-step techniques can be shared by message or during a call to reinforce progress between sessions.
Emma treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, and then suggest ways of working together. That might mean focusing on practical strategies first or spending more time on understanding longer-standing patterns.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging suit those who prefer written communication or brief ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and family life while keeping the focus on useful, practical progress.
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