About Emily
Emily Whalley is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety, stress and life transitions. She works with people who feel stuck by self-doubt, shame or low mood. Her style is warm and straightforward, aiming to help people reconnect with themselves and their values.
Emily uses several psychological approaches and adapts them to each person's needs. She often draws on attachment-based thinking to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centred methods to ensure sessions are paced around what the person brings.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in therapeutic organisations and online practice with people from different countries. That experience informs how she supports clients through grief, relationship difficulties and the aftermath of trauma. She helps people notice repeated patterns and try small, practical changes.
Sessions can address body image, codependency, commitment and communication problems, as well as work-related stress and compassion fatigue. Emily also works with issues such as abandonment, dissociation and family of origin concerns. Conversations focus on making sense of feelings and developing clearer, more manageable ways of coping.
Emily holds BACP as a professional credential and has three years of clinical experience. She offers sessions in English and is open to working with international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions that fit their circumstances.
How Emily combines approach and online practice
Emily commonly uses attachment-based perspectives to look at how early relationships shape present patterns. That work helps when trust, intimacy or repeated relational problems cause anxiety or low mood.She also works in a client-centred way, which means sessions follow the person's priorities and pace. This approach supports people who want to feel heard and make changes from their own values and goals.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Emily treats the choice of methods as a collaborative process. Together they will look at your goals, preferences and experiences to decide what to try first and adjust as you go.
Online formats make this work flexible. Video calls let you use visual cues and deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing reflections and people who prefer writing between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, travel or family life while keeping the focus on practical progress and emotional understanding.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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