Emily Smith, BACP

Emily Smith offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma or low self-esteem. She works with adults who want calm, practical ways to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Emily is also experienced in helping people with ADHD-related struggles. Emily uses a person-centred outlook that places the client at the heart of the work. Sessions are conversational and aim to help people make sense of their experience. She combines this with techniques from mindfulness to increase present-moment coping and from attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships affect wellbeing. Her background includes three years of clinical practice and registration with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP. That registration means she follows a professional code of ethics and standards. In sessions she focuses on clear, manageable steps. People are encouraged to set the pace and bring the topics they want to address, whether that is long-standing trauma, impulsivity, or problems with guilt and shame. Practical skills and exploration of personal stories are mixed depending on what helps most. Emily also attends to issues that often sit alongside mental health problems, such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image worries, and the emotional effects of separation or major life changes. She is LGBTQ+ friendly and offers care in English for people based in the United Kingdom. To begin, clients pick a session format that fits their day and work on goals together with Emily. The intention is steady progress through honest conversation and useful tools.

How Emily’s approaches translate to online therapy

Emily draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships and early experiences shape current reactions. That approach helps when patterns of trust, closeness or abandonment keep repeating and causing distress.

She also uses a person-centred approach that places the client’s concerns and goals at the centre of each session. This means sessions are led by what the person brings, with the counsellor offering reflection and support rather than directing the process.

Mindfulness techniques are used to build simple skills for managing stress and anxiety. These are practical exercises you can practise between sessions to improve focus and reduce reactivity.

Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be explored together. The therapist will check what helps, adapt methods, and agree on goals collaboratively so the plan fits the client’s needs and preferences.

Online sessions make that collaborative work easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for quicker check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter, flexible ways to reflect between sessions and to keep continuity when schedules are tight.