About Emma
Emma Louise Sharkey helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those dealing with addiction, grief, sleeping and eating issues, parenting pressures, and major life changes. Emma uses a straightforward, respectful style that places the person in charge of their story.
Emma has three years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She believes clients bring strengths and knowledge about themselves, and she aims to build on those resources rather than prescribing one fixed path.
How Emma works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including bipolar difficulties, ADHD, LGBT-related issues, and caregiving stress. She also focuses on more specific matters such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, codependency and communication problems.
Practical coping strategies and clearer thinking are typical goals in her sessions. Emma draws on a mix of approaches tailored to the issue at hand. She may use client-centred ways of listening, trauma-focused techniques, hypnotherapy, or EMDR for people with distressing memories.
The choice of approach is decided together based on what feels right. People meet her for video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. The format can be chosen to fit schedules and comfort levels, and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Emma lists 4 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- 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
How Emma’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgement. It helps people gain clarity, build self-trust and choose practical next steps in their life. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, works with distressing memories by using guided attention to reduce their emotional intensity and can be helpful for trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emma will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Decisions are made together and can be adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit brief check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, childcare and travel.
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