About Emma
Emma Mccartney is a counsellor who uses a person-centred approach to help people manage stress, anxiety and low mood. She holds NCPS as a credential and brings three years of professional experience to sessions. Emma aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can speak about what matters to them and start to find clearer next steps.
She focuses on practical ways to reduce worry and regain motivation. That can include gentle cognitive work to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, mindfulness exercises to ease physical tension, or simple behavioural steps to rebuild routine and confidence.
Background and approach
Emma also offers hypnotherapy and psychodynamic ideas when these seem helpful to understand deeper patterns. Many people come for help with anxiety, panic attacks, stress and depression. She also supports those dealing with relationship tensions, grief, addictions and issues linked to identity such as LGBT concerns.
Emma pays attention to attachment, communication and boundaries so clients can feel steadier in day-to-day life. In sessions she listens without judgement and follows what the client brings. Conversations include practical tools, reflective questions and small experiments to try between meetings.
Progress is paced to each person’s comfort and goals. Emma works online and with international clients in English. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that suit their timetable.
Approaches that suit online support
Emma often combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy to help people manage anxious thoughts and change unhelpful patterns. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, building trust and following the client's priorities so sessions feel relevant and humane. CBT breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical exercises to reduce worry and panic over time.Emma also draws on mindfulness practices to help with physical tension and overwhelming emotions, and she may use hypnotherapy for relaxation or to support behaviour change when appropriate. Each approach is explained in simple terms and tried at a pace that suits the client.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as progress unfolds. This collaborative process helps match techniques to specific issues like panic, sleep problems or relationship stress.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text and chat can fit around busy days and allow reflection between messages. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare or travel commitments while working with therapists and registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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