About Emma
Emma McArthur offers straightforward, practical therapy grounded in cognitive and person-centred approaches. She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with a client-centred style to help people make changes that matter. Emma is a BACP counsellor with three years' experience based in the United Kingdom.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression and addiction, and helps people dealing with trauma, grief and low self-esteem. Emma also supports clients facing relationship strain, career pressures, sleep or eating difficulties, and issues linked to neurodiversity, chronic illness or ageing.
How Emma works
Her work includes attention to anger, impulsivity, ADHD and compassion fatigue. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of coping. Conversations are guided by the client and shaped with practical strategies from CBT and skills from DBT when useful.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to connect values with action rather than only trying to control difficult thoughts. Emma aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can go at a pace that feels right. She helps people explore how past experiences affect their present choices and support them to test new responses.
The work is collaborative and focused on small, manageable steps. If someone decides to start therapy she will work with them to set realistic goals and adapt the approach as needed. The aim is to build on strengths, reduce distress and help clients move towards the life they want.
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.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's 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 work online
Emma commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online practice. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values even when difficult thoughts appear. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours to reduce distress and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Emma will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest ways of working that fit your needs. Together you can try different techniques and adapt the mix of ACT, CBT and client-centred listening to see what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you use visual interaction for longer work, phone can be a simpler option that uses less bandwidth, chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health constraints while still using structured therapeutic methods and practical skills.
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