About Emma
Dr. Emma Covernton helps people manage stress, anxiety and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports those dealing with eating and sleeping difficulties, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, and sexual or intimacy-related concerns.
Her practical focus includes career questions, ADHD-related struggles, and issues around relationships and attachment. Emma trained and works as a clinical psychologist and has nine years of experience within the NHS. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and grounded in everyday language rather than medical jargon. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at how thoughts affect mood and behaviour.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to help people notice values and take small, value-led steps. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills are offered for emotion regulation when feelings feel overwhelming. Emma encourages collaboration.
She helps people set clear, manageable goals and tracks progress together. Work may include short practical exercises, behaviour experiments between sessions, and learning new coping skills. People who choose to work with Emma can expect supportive, practical conversations that focus on change and recovery.
She draws on NHS experience to guide people through trauma, mood problems, obsessive or compulsive difficulties, eating and body image concerns, and process addictions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take small steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and long-standing avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions, and uses small experiments to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression and some obsessive behaviours.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and goals and suggest methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and approaches may be blended to suit changing priorities as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which provide practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and working through exercises together. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between meetings, and can fit around work or caregiving timetables.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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