About Emma
Emma Mccartney offers a warm, person-centred approach that puts the client at the heart of the work. She uses plain language and steady support to help people talk through what feels hard right now. Emma is a counsellor with three years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential.
Her main focus includes stress, anxiety and low mood. She also helps with relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, addictions and grief.
How Emma works
Emma works with people facing self-esteem struggles, parenting pressures and career crossroads. Emma draws on client-centred principles to create a non-judgemental space. She combines that with practical cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
She sometimes uses mindfulness exercises to help calm the body and hypnotherapy when clients want a different route into change. Sessions begin with simple listening and gentle questions to understand what matters most. Together the counsellor and client set small, realistic steps to try between meetings.
Emma aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful rather than overwhelming. She accepts people from the United Kingdom and international clients. Sessions can be arranged by following the Start Therapy flow and completing a short matching questionnaire.
Emma supports people who want practical ways to cope and clearer thinking about next steps.
Emma lists 5 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
Practical therapeutic approaches for online support
Emma uses client-centred counselling to prioritise the person's own goals and lived knowledge. This approach involves listening closely, reflecting what is shared and helping the client clarify what matters most; it can be especially helpful for people feeling overwhelmed or unsure where to start.She also employs cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting patterns of thought and behaviour that keep problems going. CBT is practical and goal-focused, and can be useful for anxiety, panic attacks, low mood and stress-related difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emma will talk with clients about their needs, goals and preferences and then choose or combine methods collaboratively. That means trying things and adjusting based on what helps most for each person.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging works well for ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping continuity of care with the same counsellor.
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