Emily Whalley, BACP

Emily Whalley is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and has three years of professional experience. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and trauma. Emily also supports those dealing with codependency patterns, people-pleasing and low self-worth.

Emily often focuses on how past attachment experiences shape current relationships. She helps people notice repeated patterns - for example over-giving, trouble saying no, or staying in relationships around someone else's moods or drinking. Sessions are practical and conversational. Emily pays attention to feelings, life history and recurring relational habits.

Her approach draws on attachment-based work and client-centred practice. That means attention to how people connect, and an emphasis on listening and reflecting rather than directive instruction. She also uses existential and Jungian ideas to look at meaning, identity and recurring life themes.

In sessions Emily might help a person identify boundary patterns, practice clearer communication, and notice how early family roles still affect choices now. She offers mindfulness-based tools for managing anxiety and grounding when dissociation or overwhelm occurs. Therapy here is about learning small, usable ways to manage day-to-day life.

Emily has worked with people living outside the UK as well as locally. She describes her work as collaborative: clients and the therapist together look at what feels most helpful. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange an initial meeting.

How Emily’s approaches work in online sessions