Emma Devai
Compassionate counsellor focusing on honest connection
About Emma
Emma Devai is a counsellor who focuses on honest, human connection. She aims to build a respectful partnership with each person who comes to therapy. Emma brings a calm and approachable manner to sessions and values openness and straightforward conversation.
She works relationally and draws on methods from different approaches to suit each person. That means sessions can include listening, practical strategies, and gentle challenge when helpful. Emma sometimes shares her own emotional responses when it helps the conversation and deepens trust.
Background and approach
Emma holds a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice & Crime Control which gives her insight into the systems that affect people’s lives, such as education, social care and the criminal justice system. This background helps her support people who are trying to make sense of difficult experiences or systemic challenges. Her practice is trauma-informed and strengths-based.
She helps people reconnect with values, rebuild confidence, and find small steps forward when life feels overwhelming. Sessions aim to look at past patterns, current struggles and practical ways to cope. Emma has four years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers sessions in English and works with people who prefer online formats as well as other ways of meeting. If someone wants clear, down-to-earth support, she focuses on creating a warm, non-judgemental space where their story is treated with care.
What Emma works with
How Emma works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide online work and what to expect
Emma blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy to help people make sense of feelings and change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and able to talk things through. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical strategies to test and change those patterns.Emma also uses motivational interviewing when people are thinking about change. This approach helps explore ambivalence and strengthens motivation by drawing out a person’s own reasons for change rather than imposing advice. Together these approaches are chosen in collaboration with the client so the direction of therapy fits their needs and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions when visual connection helps the work. Phone sessions can suit shorter check-ins or times when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and messaging work well for ongoing contact, brief reflections and when flexibility is needed around work or caring commitments. Registered and accredited professionals use these options to make therapy more accessible and to match the pace and style someone prefers.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
