Emma Bourquin
Practical, kind support for stress and life changes
About Emma
Emma Bourquin offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety and major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what is most worrying you. Emma encourages small, manageable steps so clients can notice real change between sessions.
She has 12 years of experience working with issues such as depression, grief and loss, anger, sleeping problems and compassion fatigue. Emma also helps people with self-esteem and motivation, and she supports those navigating parenting concerns and relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
Her practice includes work around ADHD, autism and Asperger Syndrome, postpartum depression, pregnancy and childbirth, and caring for someone with additional needs. Emma takes a respectful and sensitive approach. She adapts conversation and the plan to each person's situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on practical ways to cope and build resilience. Clients can expect clear steps, problem-solving and attention to everyday pressures like work, caring responsibilities and changing life roles. Emma prioritises helping people find realistic ways to manage symptoms and move forward at their own pace.
She works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. Those seeking help are guided through a simple sign-up and matching process to begin booking sessions.
What Emma works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches to online therapy and flexible session formats
Emma uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and problem-solving. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence, which can reduce anxiety and low mood by changing how someone thinks and behaves. Another approach emphasises building routines, sleep habits and small behaviour changes to improve tiredness, concentration and sleeping patterns.Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Emma collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, goals and preferences, and she adjusts methods as progress is made. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to what actually helps in day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and non-verbal communication, phone sessions can fit a shorter break or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring duties and other 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
