Emma Bourquin, BACP

Emma Bourquin helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious or low in confidence. She writes short, straightforward plans and listens with care so conversations stay practical. Emma aims to make the first steps into therapy less daunting for busy parents and carers.

Emma has 12 years of experience working in the United Kingdom and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She supports people through bereavement, stress and depression, and helps with sleep problems and anger. She also works with those facing identity and relationship concerns, including LGBT matters and parenting pressures.

Her practice includes support for people affected by trauma and abuse, attention deficit hyperactivity issues, and the particular pressures of caregiving. She also offers help around pregnancy and childbirth, postpartum depression, intellectual disability matters, and autism and Asperger syndrome. Emma takes a straightforward approach and focuses on the problem in front of you.

In sessions she adapts the pace to each person. Some sessions look at immediate coping skills. Others tackle longer term patterns that sap energy and confidence. Emma explains ideas plainly and works with you to set small, manageable goals.

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. To start, a short matching questionnaire helps decide if she is a good fit and to book sessions at times that suit you.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Emma uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches coping strategies for anxiety, sleep and stress. These sessions often include simple exercises you can use between meetings to handle difficult moments.

She also works on building self-esteem and motivation by identifying unhelpful patterns and setting small achievable goals. This kind of work suits people wanting steady progress on confidence, career concerns or relationship stress. When trauma or grief is present, sessions concentrate on pacing and stabilising everyday functioning before moving into deeper material.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and she will collaborate with you to select methods that fit your needs and goals. That discussion includes how you prefer to work, how quickly you want to move, and which symptoms are most pressing, so the plan reflects your priorities.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls let you use face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or other commitments while still keeping steady progress.