"One of life’s inevitabilities is that there will be challenges. Some people will experience more challenges and greater hardship than others; but no matter how big or small your personal hurdles, therapy is a unique space where understanding your life experiences, developing self-acceptance, and becoming equipped with skills to tackle the future are all possible."
About Me
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I am a HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist with experience of providing evidence-based therapy for clients experiencing a range of mental health difficulties. As I recognise that everyone and their experiences are different, I draw upon a range of different therapeutic models in order to meet each client’s unique needs, challenges, and life experiences. I always work together with each client to figure out how best to approach our goals, tasks, and methods for therapy. I know that the relationship between client and therapist predicts good outcomes in therapy, so I value and prioritise the therapeutic relationship, and always offer a warm, supportive, friendly, and authentic therapy space where clients can feel able to discover and express their true selves.
Emily has experience in providing integrative therapeutic treatment to adults from a range of diverse backgrounds. As such, she has experience in working with a wide range of mental health presentations and difficulties, including anxiety, depression, anger, stress, self-esteem, shame and self-criticism, addiction issues, bereavement, psychosis, personality disorders, and trauma (post-traumatic stress disorder and complex trauma).
As a humanistic psychologist, Emily is committed to helping people to realise their own strengths, potential, and their agency, and believes strongly in the transformative effects of self-compassion in helping clients to live more authentic, fulfilling, contented lives. She works collaboratively and flexibly in order to help clients in making meaningful changes and achieving a greater sense of well-being.
Emily works with adults and has extensive experience of providing remote therapy – either online or over the phone.
Emily completed a Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology with The University of Manchester, and has experience working in NHS, charities, and the private sector, providing assessment, formulation and treatment for adults experiencing both common and complex mental health difficulties. She currently works with a health and social care charity, providing help and support to clients experiencing homelessness and substance misuse issues, as well as extreme social marginalisation.
Emily is interested in social justice and the practice of reflexivity, meaning she is committed to understanding the ways in which aspects of her identity and positions of privilege influence her work as a practitioner psychologist, and understanding of issues of power, discrimination, and oppression, and the psychological impact of these. She has undertaken doctoral research examining these concepts in relation to the experiences of women experiencing homelessness, and hopes to publish these findings soon.
She has experience in offering clinical supervision, group interventions, consultation, teaching and training, as well as developing services in both psychologically-informed and trauma-informed, and gender-informed approaches.
le Couteur, E. (2023). Feminist Research in Psychotherapy: The Strange Case of The United Kingdom’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Policy. In K. Tudor & J. Wyatt (Eds.), Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy: Reflexivity, Methodology, and Criticality (pp.58-71) Routledge.