About Emma
Emma Harvey is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and related concerns. She brings five years of experience in mental health and works with adults to untangle problems that feel overwhelming. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, so sessions aim to be straightforward and useful from the start.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. That can mean looking at thoughts and behaviours with cognitive behavioural therapy, paying attention to emotional patterns through psychodynamic ideas, or using client-centred methods that follow what the person brings to the room.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple tools and small steps to try between meetings. Emma describes her work as collaborative. She helps people set clear goals and checks in about progress.
Conversations are paced so clients can make steady changes without feeling rushed. Her practice covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anger, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, relationship and family issues, trauma, grief, eating difficulties, parenting strain and coping with life changes. She also supports people facing worries linked to chronic illness, caregiving, body image and attachment concerns.
Emma offers video, phone, chat and text formats so people can pick what fits their life. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connects people to sessions at times that work for them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The counsellor listens closely, reflects what they hear and follows the client's agenda to build insight and confidence. This approach helps when someone needs space to understand their feelings and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Sessions often include simple exercises and practical homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can be useful for anxiety and low mood.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) emphasises practical skills for managing strong emotions and reducing unhelpful reactions. It teaches tools for distress tolerance, emotion regulation and clearer communication when stress is high.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will explore your goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before, then suggest options to try together. That collaborative process helps shape an approach that fits your needs.
Online formats offer real practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, quick reflections or people who prefer writing. Those options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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