Emma Thilwind
Compassionate counsellor focused on relationships and change
About Emma
Emma Thilwind is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with nine years of experience. She focuses on relationship difficulties, grief and loss, low self-esteem, depression and coping with life changes. She aims to make starting therapy less daunting and to work at a pace that suits each person.
Emma views each person as the expert in their own story and looks for strengths to build on. She keeps a relaxed style and sometimes uses humour to ease tension during sessions.
Background and approach
Her lived experience informs her empathy and helps her relate without judgement. In sessions she offers straightforward, practical conversations. She listens, reflects, and helps people try small changes that can shift how they feel.
She also uses hypnotherapy when appropriate and draws on solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals. Emma is registered as NCPS, which is shown after her name. She combines that background with nine years of direct work supporting people through loss, relationship upheaval and low mood.
Her approach is warm and grounded rather than clinical or ornate. People who choose Emma can expect gentle encouragement and practical steps they can use between sessions. She supports work on attachment concerns, communication problems, blended family stress, caregiver strain, chronic illness and other life pressures.
Her aim is to help people regain steadiness and clearer direction. To begin, Emma asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire so she can understand their needs and how best to help. She then arranges sessions at times that suit the person.
What Emma works with
How Emma works
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Listed by Emma among the ways they work.
Listed by Emma among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Emma's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps you make sense of your feelings, which can be useful for relationship worries, grief and low self-esteem.Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to help people access thoughts and feelings differently. It can support changing unhelpful habits, easing anxiety and building confidence when used alongside talking therapy.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on practical steps and clear goals. Sessions focus on what is working, small changes to try between meetings and measurable progress rather than long reviews of the past.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Emma will work collaboratively to identify which methods suit your needs, goals and how you prefer to work. She will adapt her style if something doesn't feel helpful and agree next steps together.
Online sessions offer flexibility and choice. Video calls allow fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat suits people who prefer typing in the moment, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving or mobility challenges.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
