About Emma
Emma Dalgleish is a BACP counsellor with 22 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are facing relationship difficulties, intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety and mood changes. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she aims to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity.
Emma adapts her way of working to each person’s situation. She uses approaches that focus on attachment, personal meaning and the therapeutic relationship.
Background and approach
Sessions are intended to help clients talk through what matters most and find practical ways to cope day to day. She commonly supports people dealing with self-esteem, stress, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, and the challenges of parenting and career change. Additional areas of interest include ADHD, bereavement, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and sexual diversity concerns.
Emma also offers help around attachment wounds, abandonment and adoption-related issues. Her style is empathic, honest and non-judgemental. Emma listens carefully and reflects back what she hears to help people see patterns and options.
She aims to create a calm space where clients can explore feelings, make changes and practise new ways of relating. Emma’s practice blends conversation-focused methods with relationship work and brief interventions when useful. People are supported to set goals and pace the work to match their needs.
The focus is on clear, practical steps alongside deeper understanding.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Emma commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current connections and trust. This approach helps people understand patterns in close relationships and work on feeling safer with others.She also draws on Client-Centred Therapy, which puts the person's experience at the heart of the work. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting and helping clients find their own solutions rather than the counsellor directing the process.
Finding the right method is part of the process and happens together. Emma will discuss goals, past experiences and preferences, then suggest an approach or mix of approaches that fit the person's needs. The plan is reviewed as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat suit shorter check-ins or those who prefer not to use a camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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