Hi, I'm Emily
I´m an integrative, relational therapist and someone who knows what its like to feel not enough and all too much at the same time.
I don’t see you as a problem to be fixed, but as a person navigating the challenges that life presents. I’m here to meet you there, to walk alongside you and hold space for whatever may arise, whether through thoughts, feelings, or the body.
Through our work together, we will build your capacity to tolerate and respond to life’s challenges with greater awareness, compassion, and resilience, creating space for meaningful and lasting change.
How I Work
I draw on a range of psychological perspectives while staying deeply attuned to our relationship and what unfolds between us.
Being an Integrative Therapist means blending different approaches such as existential, psychodynamic, person centred, parts work, and experiential therapy, to support healing on multiple levels: psychological, emotional, and bodily. I also draw on mindfulness to help support healing and implement change. It’s also about helping you integrate the different parts of yourself, bringing more wholeness and alignment to how you live and relate.
Being relational means I meet you as a human-to-human. I may bring psychological expertise, but you are the expert in your own experience. I will walk alongside you, hold space for what arises, and to bring awareness to patterns that may no longer serve you.
Together, we might:
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Make sense of your experiences and find deeper meaning in your struggles.
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Recognise how past patterns shape your present emotions and relationships.
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Unlearn old ways of being that keep you stuck or disconnected.
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Connect with different parts of yourself that might be out of your awareness
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Build a stronger connection to yourself and, in turn, to others.
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Work holistically with your psychological, emotional and somatic experiences.
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Develop emotional resilience and inner strength.
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Create the conditions for meaningful and lasting change that supports your therapeutic goals.
At the core of my work is the therapeutic relationship, which is a safe, compassionate, calm space where authenticity, curiosity, and trust allows your true self to emerge and take up space.
Why I Might Be the Right Therapist for You
I know what it’s like to walk into therapy and wonder "Will you really see me? Will you understand what I’m carrying?"
I’m not here as a fixer or an expert, but as someone who’s done, and continues to do, the inner work myself. I know what it’s like to feel unseen, to over perform just to belong, or to carry pain that was not met with care.
I believe that the wounds created in relationship are best healed through relationship. That’s why I place so much importance on building a space where you feel safe enough to be real. Where you don’t have to hold it all together, where you can begin to soften, unlearn old defences, and meet yourself with compassion.
If you’re looking for quick tips or surface-level solutions, I might not be the right therapist for you. But if you’re ready to explore what’s underneath, to make sense of your patterns, and to move toward lasting change, I’d be honoured to walk alongside you.
Education and Experience
I work in private practice, supporting both short-term and long-term clients. Short-term therapy can be anything from 6–12 sessions, while longer-term, deeper work can unfold over much more time. Clients come to me for a range of reasons: to explore their relationships, heal from betrayal or infidelity, work through intimacy issues, anxiety, depression, ADHD, eating and body image struggles, questions around identity and sexuality, or experiences of coercive relationships and narcissistic dynamics. Others come because they’re feeling lost, disconnected, or navigating big life transitions, including those adjusting to life in a new country.
Before starting my private practice, I worked in a variety of therapeutic settings. I worked for an organisation supporting clients with PTSD, addiction, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, always focusing on building strong, trusting relationships and working in a way that met each person where they were. I worked for a specialist service for survivors of sexual abuse and rape, where I provided trauma-informed therapy, supporting clients to manage symptoms such as flashbacks, dissociation, and low self-esteem, and helping them make sense of the impact of complex trauma.
I also facilitated therapeutic support groups with a mental health charity, holding space for people living with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and a variety of mental health challenges, to connect and share their experiences safely. And for several years, I’ve worked remotely with expats, migrants, and non-native English speakers, blending my background in coaching and therapy to create a supportive space for people navigating the emotional challenges of living abroad.
Masters Research Integrative Psychotherapy
Specialising in the study of the impact of core shame
University of Lancashire
CPCAB Counselling Skills
SGS College
Post Graduate Diploma Integrative Psychotherapy
University of Lancashire
Person Centred Expressive Arts Certificate
Creative Connections
Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Counselling Person Centred
University of Lancashire
Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree
in History and Spanish University of Central Lancashire
Additional Training and CPD
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Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice
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Working with Relational Trauma: Dealing with Disorganised Attachment
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Mental Health and the Body: Treating Trauma
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Working with Childhood Sexual Abuse
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In Person Trauma Training - Trust House Lancashire
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Group Facilitation Training- Peer Talk
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Supporting individuals in distress following psychedelic experiences
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Working with the Inner child
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Working with Shame
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The Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual abuse
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Shame and Complex Trauma
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Embodied Individuation
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Understanding and working with Narcissism
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Foundation certificate in understanding and applying parts work
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Foundation certificate in Somatic Trauma theory and skills
