About Emma
Emma Rigg is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults facing depression, trauma, and LGBT-related concerns. Emma believes people know their own stories and builds on their existing strengths.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported. Emma uses an attachment-based perspective to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when people are struggling with abandonment, attachment issues, or trouble trusting others.
Background and approach
She also offers client-centred sessions where the focus is on the person's experience and choices. That style suits people who need a steady, accepting space to talk things through. Over six years she has worked with a wide range of concerns connected to life transitions and long-term stress.
Examples include caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, isolation, and difficulties after divorce or separation. She also addresses problems like guilt, shame, communication breakdowns, and issues related to ageing. Sessions can focus on practical coping strategies as well as exploring how past relationships affect current feelings.
Conversations are paced to the person's needs, with attention to developing clearer ways to manage emotions and move forward. Emma frames therapy as a collaborative process rather than giving directives. Work is offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Emma holds BACP registration and brings six years of professional experience to her counselling work.
How her approach works online
Emma uses attachment-based thinking to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. This approach can help when someone notices repeating patterns such as fear of abandonment or difficulty trusting others. It focuses on understanding those patterns and finding new ways of relating.She also uses a client-centred way of working that keeps the person's experience central. Sessions emphasise listening, reflection and the person's choices rather than expert instruction. That style can suit people who want a steady, empathetic space to make sense of feelings and decide on next steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emma will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and she will adapt the focus as progress is made. This is done collaboratively so the person remains in control of pace and direction.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel; phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing written reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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