About
Emma is a dedicated, conscientious therapist, with 9 years of expertise within 3 key organisations and private practice. She started at the Hospice in the Weald as a bereavement counsellor, giving her a firm understanding of the grieving process in all its raw pain, navigating through the difficult stages of healing. She then moved onto The Kenward Trust addiction and rehabilitation centre, before furthering her level of experience within adult complex homelessness work. These experiences gave her great insight into how trauma combines with addiction and the process of recovery.
Her style is built on the solid foundation of the humanistic approach. This utilises her genuine, highly empathetic, non-judgemental qualities to create a secure, supportive relationship with clients.
She combines an integrative set of skills, including dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), mindfulness skills, distress tolerance skills, emotional regulation skills, interpersonal effectiveness skills, trauma regulation, attachment work, body work and grief work. Emma finds that these approaches are all integrated in the process of healing and wellness.
Within this safe framework, she can assist clients in working through distressing emotions, anxious or destructive behaviours, survival patterns and fears that cause blocks to healing, living and experiencing life in a way that allows the happiness and serenity anyone deserves.
Emma particularly excels in working with complex mental health, including personality disorders. She understands how maladaptive coping mechanisms develop and how to support clients out of psychological distress, with the use of the DBT tools.
To assist a person on the path of finding inner peace is the greatest accomplishment she can offer.
Training
- Dissociation psychosis (N-Science)
- Complex trauma training, a practical guide to complex PTSD (N-Science)
- Working with adults and children with anger issues (Fegans)
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - how to recognise it and how to work with it (Fegans)
- Suicide - how to work with ideation (Hospice in the Weald)
- The Grief Walker - Stephen Jenkinson, how death empowers us to live (Hospice in the Weald)
- Introduction to Gestalt (Hospice in the Weald)
- Service champion training (armed forces network)