Emily Foord, BACP

Emily Foord offers gentle, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety and addiction. She helps clients talk through relationship strain, parenting pressures, low mood and changes in life. Emily aims to make therapy feel manageable and realistic for everyday life.

She uses an integrative counselling approach, drawing on a background in psychology and work in addiction services. Emily combines what has worked in past roles to meet each person’s needs rather than following one fixed method. Sessions focus on understanding patterns, building coping strategies and developing kinder ways of relating to yourself and others.

Emily trained with a BSc in Psychology and holds a diploma in Integrative Counselling. She has six years of experience working in residential addiction and mental health settings, and in charitable counselling. That mix means she is used to short and longer term work, and to helping people with intense emotional and behavioural challenges.

In practice she hears about family of origin issues, attachment concerns, codependency and intimacy worries. She also supports people dealing with obsessive or compulsive habits, process addictions, panic and phobias, and the emotional impact of pregnancy and childbirth. Sessions are pragmatic and compassionate, with space to process guilt, shame or complicated feelings.

Emily works in English and accepts international clients. Her way of working is collaborative - she helps people decide what to try, then reviews progress together.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Emily uses an integrative counselling framework that blends insight work with practical tools. Integrative counselling brings together useful ideas from different approaches so sessions can be tailored to what helps you most, such as managing anxiety or changing addictive patterns.

She also draws on techniques commonly used in addiction work and motivational interviewing style conversations to help people find reasons to change and to set small realistic goals. These approaches are often helpful for compulsive behaviours, process addictions and getting through moments of craving or shame.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your situation, try methods that suit your goals and adjust over time. You and the therapist check in together to see what is useful and change course if needed.

Online therapy can make that collaboration easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for ongoing support between sessions and for people who prefer writing to speaking. These choices give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.