Emily Whalley

Emily Whalley is a BACP counsellor who focuses on helping people who feel stuck with anxiety, low self-worth, grief or relationship pain. She offers a calm, relational approach that aims to help clients reconnect with themselves and with others.

She works with people who face a range of concerns including stress, depression, addictions and trauma. She also supports those dealing with intimacy and communication problems, body image, codependency and issues around commitment. Emily has particular experience helping people from LGBT communities and those coping with life changes such as divorce or relocation.

Her way of working brings together attachment-based thinking, client-centred care and mindfulness with psychodynamic and Jungian ideas. Sessions focus on understanding how past patterns shape current feelings and relationships. Practical tools are introduced alongside reflective conversation to build emotional steadiness.

Emily has three years of experience and has worked both in therapeutic organisations and online with international clients. She describes the therapeutic relationship as central and aims to create a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk honestly and explore difficult material.

People who choose Emily typically want to address anxiety, trauma, grief or identity concerns while also exploring deeper meaning. To begin, she asks prospective clients to complete a short questionnaire so she can match on needs and scheduling.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online sessions using this approach can help people understand patterns like avoidance, abandonment worries and difficulty trusting others, and then practise new ways of relating.

Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It offers non-judgemental listening, reflection and empathy so people can find their own answers about issues such as self-esteem, life transitions and relationship choices.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Emily will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit best with a person's goals, needs and preferences. This means checking in together about what feels useful and adapting the sessions over time.

Practical benefits of online therapy include being able to attend sessions from different locations and to fit counselling around work or family life. Online work can reduce travel time and make regular appointments easier to keep. Please confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered.