About Emma
Emma Martin uses a person-centred approach to help people feel heard and understood. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and draws on four years of practice in the United Kingdom. Emma keeps language simple and sessions focused on what matters most to each person.
She offers calm, steady support for worries about relationships, grief and parenting strain. She also helps people cope with life changes, stress, anxiety and addiction concerns.
How Emma works
Practical conversations cover low mood, self-esteem, anger and career stresses as well as intimacy and eating issues. Emma has experience working with survivors of sexual violence and domestic abuse, and with people facing complex harm and trauma. That background gives her a solid understanding of how traumatic events can shape thinking and feelings.
She aims to create a non-judgemental space where difficult memories can be spoken about at the client's pace. Her work also includes support for people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, gender dysphoria and challenges linked to adoption, attachment and caring for ageing relatives. Emma uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas alongside person-centred listening to keep sessions practical and hope-focused.
Sessions are straightforward and collaborative. Emma helps people set small, achievable steps and talks through options for managing stress, mood and relationships. She treats each person as an individual and adapts her approach to what they bring to the room.
Emma lists 3 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
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| 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 Work Online
Emma uses a person-centred approach that places the client's experience at the centre of each session. The focus is on listening carefully, reflecting what is said and helping people feel understood so they can make choices that suit them.She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people clarify what they want to change and build their own motivation. This method is useful for issues such as addictions, behaviour change and getting unstuck from old habits.
Solution-focused ideas are used to set short-term goals and identify small, practical steps. These conversations tend to be forward-looking and help with coping during stressful life changes or when managing specific problems like work stress or relationship tension.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Emma will discuss options with each person and decide together which methods best fit the individual's needs, goals and preferences. The process is collaborative and adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These choices make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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