About Emma
Emma Devai is a BACP counsellor who aims to build honest, down-to-earth connections. She frames therapy as a partnership and tries to make people feel seen and respected from the first conversation. Emma is calm, approachable and willing to be open about her own emotional responses when it helps the work.
She combines ideas from different therapeutic models to suit each person. That integrative approach means sessions can include practical thinking strategies, reflective conversation, and short-term goal work.
Background and approach
Emma often uses trauma-informed and strengths-based thinking to help people reconnect with what matters to them. Emma's background includes a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and Crime Control, which gives her insight into how systems like education, social care and criminal justice shape experience.
She draws on that understanding when people want to make sense of difficult events, rebuild confidence, or manage systemic challenges. Her areas of focus include anxiety, stress, addictions, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, ADHD and self-esteem. She also supports people with issues such as attachment and abandonment, body image, chronic illness, and communication problems.
Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Emma aims to work at each person's pace, using humour and warmth where helpful. She supports adults and young people, and adapts the style to suit the individual's needs and goals.
How Emma's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist offers active listening, empathic reflection and support to help people make sense of their feelings and choices. This approach can help with anxiety, self-esteem and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, uses structured conversation to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours. It is practical and often useful for anxiety, low mood and managing stress. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change, which can be helpful when working on addictions or ambivalence about goals.
Emma treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about their needs, preferences and goals, and try methods that fit. If something isn't helpful she will adapt the plan so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls let people use facial cues and tone, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, shorter sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, school and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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