About Emma
Emma Stannard is a counsellor working from the United Kingdom who offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed. She uses straightforward, collaborative sessions to help with stress, anxiety, relationship strain and feeling stuck. Emma presents as warm and relaxed and aims to help people regain motivation and inner strength.
Emma trained and holds NCPS, which she uses alongside a mixture of talking approaches and hypnotherapy techniques. She draws on ideas about how past experiences shape current patterns and on short-term solution-focused work to help people move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions include simple exercises, reflective conversation and practical steps to try between meetings. Her style is gentle and down-to-earth. She listens for patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood, and then helps people try small changes.
Emma explains options and checks in about what feels useful, so the work is adjusted to each person’s needs. Emma has three years of clinical experience and aims to support issues such as panic attacks, depression, midlife change and coping with pregnancy or childbirth. She also helps with relationship communication, guilt, shame and feelings of isolation.
People can expect a blend of exploring past influences and setting short-term goals. Sessions may include relaxation work drawn from hypnotherapy and practical coping tools from solution-focused techniques. The overall aim is to help people build resilience and find clearer direction.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Emma uses hypnotherapy to introduce guided relaxation and focus. This can help people who struggle with panic, intense worry or sleep disruption by teaching calming exercises and ways to reframe stressful thoughts.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how earlier experiences affect current patterns. This work is about noticing repeated themes in relationships and behaviour, and understanding how they influence present feelings and decisions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Emma will talk through options with each person and together decide which mix of methods suits their goals and preferences. The aim is a collaborative plan that balances short-term coping with deeper understanding.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and exercises, phone sessions suit those who prefer not to be on camera, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when time is tight. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments, and to keep continuity when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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