Emma Barty
Compassionate counsellor for stress and trauma
About Emma
Emma Barty is a counsellor with nine years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She offers a warm, person-centred way of working that begins with listening closely to what matters to the client. Emma uses straightforward language and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief and low self-esteem.
Her practice draws on client-centred principles alongside mindfulness and trauma-focused approaches. Sessions may include talking, guided breathing, grounding and body-aware techniques to help with difficult memories and intense emotions.
Background and approach
Emma also understands issues linked to ADHD, autism spectrum presentations and chronic health conditions, and she adapts her pace to each individual. Clients can expect an open discussion in the first meeting about what they want from therapy and how they prefer to work. Emma outlines how sessions run, discusses safeguarding and works with people to agree a plan that feels realistic.
She offers online and phone sessions as part of a flexible approach. Emma has experience supporting people facing parenting strains, relationship loss, eating or sleeping difficulties, and the aftermath of trauma or abuse. She also helps with feelings of emptiness, shame, isolation and questions about life purpose.
Practical coping strategies and simple mindfulness practices are used alongside talking. Her background includes roles with bereavement and mental health charities and work within NHS settings. That experience informs a steady, compassionate style that balances emotional support with clear, doable steps.
Emma aims to help people feel steadier day to day and more able to manage life changes.
What Emma works with
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Emma uses client-centred work to build a practical, respectful relationship. This approach focuses on listening without judgement and following the client's lead to set goals and pace. It suits people who want a collaborative, person-focused way of working.She also draws on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy principles to teach skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. DBT-style techniques often include simple grounding, emotion regulation and interpersonal skills that can be practised between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Emma discusses goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before, then she and the client agree which methods to try. This collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan if something does not feel helpful.
Online therapy can fit around busy lives and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, family or school commitments.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
