About Emma
Emma Mansfield, NCPS, uses a calm, practical approach to help people who are feeling overwhelmed. She focuses on stress and anxiety alongside depression, grief, relationship troubles and life changes. Emma aims to create a friendly, non-judgmental space where people can speak openly and set clear goals.
Emma draws on methods such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions are centred on the person's priorities and move at a pace they find manageable. With four years of direct counselling experience, Emma has worked across health, social care and education roles. That background helps her understand practical pressures like work strain, caregiving and dealing with new or ongoing health diagnoses.
She often supports people facing trauma, childhood attachment wounds, abandonment or the impact of domestic violence. Emma also helps clients with self-esteem, body image, career decisions and coping with chronic illness or caring responsibilities. Emma encourages a mixture of short-term goal work and deeper reflection.
She uses solution-focused conversations to build immediate coping steps alongside ACT and mindfulness to develop longer term acceptance and flexibility. Her style mixes realism, warmth and a sense of humour to keep progress steady and relatable.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Emma uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that fit their values. ACT is helpful for anxiety, stress and for coping with life changes by building psychological flexibility.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and test new ways of responding. CBT often helps with worry, low mood and specific patterns that keep problems going.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Emma will work with the client to decide which methods fit their needs and goals, and she adjusts the mix as therapy progresses. Clients shape the pace and focus during conversations so change feels realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different rhythms of life. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and text or chat work well for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel while staying consistent with the chosen therapeutic approach.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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