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Emily Whalley

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Emily Whalley, BACP

United Kingdom

Counsellor - family and relationship concerns

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About

  • Attachment based
  • Mindfulness practice
  • Psychodynamic ideas

About Emily

Emily Whalley is a counsellor with BACP registration and three years of clinical experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and family concerns, and issues around intimacy and self‑esteem. Emily also supports people dealing with grief, career change, addictions and compassion fatigue.

She often helps people who feel uprooted or disconnected, including expats and migrants. She works with those carrying the effects of childhood or relational trauma and with people managing attachment or abandonment concerns. Practical problems such as communication and commitment issues are also part of her caseload.

Her approach draws on attachment-based thinking and client-centred ways of working. She uses mindfulness alongside psychodynamic and Jungian ideas to help people notice patterns and feelings without rushing to change them. Sessions focus on making sense of current struggles and on improving how someone relates to themselves and others.

Emily aims to make therapy straightforward and conversational. People can expect to talk through past experiences, notice repeated patterns, and try different ways of relating and coping. She describes the therapeutic relationship as central to the work and pays attention to how people feel in the room.

She has worked in therapeutic organisations and online with clients internationally. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people choose the online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

How sessions work

How her approaches translate to online sessions

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online, this helps people notice how they relate to others and to themselves, and it can be useful for relationship and family concerns. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person's own pace and choices. In an online setting this often means sessions that follow what feels most pressing for the client and that centre their experience.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. She will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt the approach to goals and preferences. Clients and therapist decide together whether to focus on feelings, patterns from the past, or practical coping strategies.

The biography states she has worked online with international clients but does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around daily life, reduce travel time, or allow a shorter check-in when schedules are tight. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often use online work to keep therapy accessible while focusing on the same therapeutic aims as face-to-face sessions.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBody imageCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDissociationDivorce and separationEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameImmigration issuesInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMulticultural concernsPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPost-traumatic stressPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyExistential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapySomatic TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

3+ years

Listed in

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she take on?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, intimacy issues, self‑esteem and family or relationship concerns, plus related areas such as grief and career changes.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style combines attachment-based and client-centred approaches with mindfulness and psychodynamic perspectives. Sessions are conversational and focus on understanding patterns and feelings.

How much experience does she have?

She has three years of clinical experience working in therapeutic organisations and online with international clients.

What are her professional credentials and location?

She is registered with the BACP and practises from the United Kingdom.

Can people have sessions in other countries or languages?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

Which session formats are available?

The original biography worked online with clients but did not list specific session formats. Please confirm the current session options before booking.

How are fees and payment organised?

Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time and cost varies with location.

How do I begin if I want to try therapy with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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