Emma Louise Sharkey
Understanding, practical support for difficult times
About Emma
Emma Louise Sharkey helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. She also supports those coping with addiction, grief, sleep or eating difficulties, ADHD and the strains of parenting and career change. Emma works with LGBT concerns and a wide range of related issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and caregiver stress.
She works from a person-centred view that treats the client as the expert in their own life.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on listening, building on strengths and finding practical steps that feel manageable. Emma aims to make the room feel calm and steady so people can talk at their own pace. Alongside a client-centred approach she draws on trauma-focused methods and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, or EMDR, for people who have been through distressing events.
She also uses hypnotherapy where it may help with habits, sleep or anxiety. These approaches are offered alongside straightforward conversation and problem-solving. Emma has three years of professional experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP.
She works with adults on a range of everyday and complex difficulties and adapts her style to each person’s needs. Practical tasks, gentle reflection and clear goals are part of how she works. Starting therapy is presented as a series of small steps.
Emma encourages people to take things at a pace they can manage and to focus on what is useful right now. The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online work
Emma uses a client-centred approach that puts the person's own experience first, helping them identify strengths and practical next steps. This approach works well online because it focuses on clear listening and collaborative goal-setting.She also offers trauma-focused work and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, which helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional hold. EMDR can be adapted for remote sessions and may help people dealing with past trauma, abuse or intense stress.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. Emma will talk through options, check what feels comfortable and agree a plan together based on needs, goals and personal preference. This helps people try methods that fit their situation rather than committing to a single route from the start.
Online therapy with Emma is available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging, offering flexibility for different lifestyles. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or those who prefer writing. These formats let people work with a registered professional from wherever suits their routine and schedule.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
