About Emma
Emma Tait is a counsellor who uses a mix of client-centred, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain and trauma. She has 13 years of practice in the United Kingdom and works from a perspective that treats each person as an individual. Emma is registered with the BACP, which she follows in her work.
Her sessions focus on listening carefully and building a respectful, non-judgemental relationship.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centred techniques to follow the person’s goals, and on CBT to work on practical thoughts and behaviours that get in the way of everyday life. Psychodynamic ideas are used to look at patterns that repeat over time. Emma has experience supporting people with parenting challenges, workplace difficulties including bullying, and complex bereavement and trauma.
She has also worked in NHS settings and led mental health support for a cross-county counselling service, which informs her understanding of family and parenting pressures. She supports people dealing with self-esteem issues, addictions, sleep problems, anger, career changes, and a wide range of other concerns listed in her specialties.
Emma also offers help around attachment, adoption and foster care, autism, and long-term health and caregiving strains. Emma aims to be clear and compassionate in sessions and keeps developing professionally. If something is unclear or a reader has a question, she encourages them to ask so they can decide together whether her way of working feels right.
How Emma's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centred work focuses on listening, building trust and following the person’s goals. Online sessions let Emma use that same attentive, non-judgemental approach whether on video, phone or messaging, helping clients feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is practical and action-focused, targeting thoughts and behaviours that keep difficulties going. In remote sessions Emma can set small tasks, share worksheets or review progress together in a way that fits the client’s routine. Trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas look at patterns, past events and how they influence current feelings. These approaches can be explored over time online, allowing reflection and slow, steady work on deeper issues. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Emma will work collaboratively to decide which combination of methods suits a person’s needs, goals and preferences. She adapts the pace and tools to each client so therapy feels workable and relevant. Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow visual connection and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit around busy days, offer a way to reflect in writing, and provide ongoing contact between live sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into life and keep progress moving forward.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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