Emma Harvey, BACP

Emma Harvey is a counsellor who has practised in the United Kingdom for five years and holds BACP accreditation. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and anger. Emma also supports people facing relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, grief, trauma and a range of other life changes.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals and practical steps to reach them. Sessions are often focused on identifying unhelpful thinking and behaviour, and on building skills to manage difficult feelings in day-to-day life.

Emma draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. Cognitive behavioural techniques help with thought patterns and practical problem solving. Client-centred work keeps the person’s experience at the heart of the process. She also uses elements from dialectical behaviour therapy to teach emotion regulation and mindfulness to increase moment-to-moment awareness.

People come to Emma for many reasons, including ADHD, body image or eating concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, attachment or abandonment issues, and coping after loss or trauma. She pays close attention to how past experiences shape current reactions, and she helps people try new ways of responding.

Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and solution-focused while allowing space to understand deeper patterns. Emma works with adults and young people to build clearer thinking, steadier mood and better day-to-day coping.

Approaches for online work and how they help

Emma uses cognitive behavioural therapy to look at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and to build practical steps for change; this approach can help with anxiety, low mood, anger and many everyday problems. She also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful when emotions feel overwhelming. Client-centred therapy is another strand of her work and it focuses on listening closely and supporting people to find their own solutions.

Finding the right approach is part of starting therapy. Emma collaborates with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. Together they review what is working and adjust the focus as things change.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a near face-to-face experience, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while accessing the same therapeutic approaches used in face-to-face work.