Emily Whalley
Compassionate attachment-informed counselling
About Emily
Emily Whalley works from an attachment-informed and client-centred stance to help people facing anxiety, low self-worth, grief and relationship strain. She brings a calm, attentive presence and uses mindfulness and depth-oriented approaches to help clients notice patterns and find clearer ways forward. Emily holds BACP accreditation and practises with people online and in the United Kingdom.
Emily listens for the life story behind current struggles. She helps people make sense of how past relationships shape present feelings and behaviours.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building self-compassion, recognising old patterns, and trying small changes that feel manageable. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centred listening and existential thinking. This combination supports people who feel stuck by offering both practical coping strategies and space to reflect on meaning and identity.
Jungian themes may be used to explore symbols and personal narratives, and mindfulness is taught as a way to calm the nervous system. Emily has three years' experience working in therapeutic settings and with online clients from different countries. She is experienced with a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related worries, and compassion fatigue.
She also works with issues such as codependency, attachment struggles and family of origin problems. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged by following the platform's matching process. Emily aims to work collaboratively, helping each person shape therapy to their needs and pace.
What Emily works with
How Emily works
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Sessions & fees
How Emily's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work pays attention to how early relationships shape feelings and behaviour now. Online sessions can help people notice how they seek closeness or pull away, and practise new responses in real time. Client-centred counselling focuses on being heard and understood; it gives space for someone to tell their story and find their own solutions with the therapist reflecting what matters most to them. Mindfulness therapy teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and bring attention back to the present moment, which can be used between sessions to manage stress and mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emily will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and help decide which methods fit best. That decision is shared and can change as therapy progresses to suit what is most helpful at each stage.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins or if someone prefers typing, and ongoing text messaging can support between-session reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family life while keeping the therapeutic focus.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
