- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Emma
Emma Evans is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom. She is a BACP member and holds NCPS credentials, and has four years of professional experience. Emma focuses on practical support for people living with stress, anxiety, low mood and addiction concerns.
She aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone feeling overwhelmed. Emma believes clients know their own stories and brings a respectful, down-to-earth manner to sessions.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and helps people notice what already works. Her style is collaborative and calm, with a focus on useful skills rather than jargon. In sessions she draws on cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance-based methods to help people change unhelpful patterns.
Attachment-informed thinking is used to understand relationship difficulties and intimacy issues. Dialectical skills and client-centred listening are available for emotion regulation and self-compassion work. Parents reading this should know she lists Parenting among her areas of focus and can support individuals dealing with parenting stress and decision-making.
She also works with people facing grief, career change, chronic health challenges, ADHD and relationship concerns. Emma offers a mix of practical tools and reflective conversation. Typical work can include building new routines, handling difficult emotions, improving communication and coping with life transitions.
Her approach aims to be steady, straightforward and tailored to what each person needs. To begin, she uses an initial matching process so clients and the counsellor can see if they are a good fit. Sessions are available online using a range of formats to suit different schedules and preferences.
What Emma works with
Everything Emma lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Emma helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Emma lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches shape online counselling
Emma commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). CBT focuses on identifying thought and behaviour patterns and trying practical experiments to change them, which can help with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful routines. ACT emphasises values-based action and learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings while still moving towards meaningful goals, which can suit people facing chronic stress or life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emma will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then suggest techniques to try. The choice of methods is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to make counselling easier to fit into daily life. Video is useful for a fuller conversational experience, phone calls suit those with limited bandwidth, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options give flexibility for appointments around work, caring responsibilities or travel, and let people pick what helps them engage with therapy.
Questions people ask about Emma
What concerns does Emma work with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, low self-esteem and parenting-related strain. Her practice also covers grief, relationship and intimacy issues, ADHD and career change.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Emma uses a calm, collaborative and straightforward style. Sessions focus on practical skills and reflective conversation rather than clinical language.
What is her background and experience?
She has four years of professional practice in the UK and works from a perspective that highlights client strengths and personal agency.
What credentials and location are listed?
Emma is listed with BACP and NCPS and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she use?
She works online using video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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