Emma Hughes
Warm, practical counselling with multiple approaches
About Emma
Emma Hughes uses a blend of talking therapies to help people find clearer ways forward. She works in a warm, interactive manner and aims to treat people with respect and compassion. Emma will gently challenge people when appropriate and tailors sessions to individual needs.
Emma trained in integrative counselling and completed a degree in psychology. She has practised psychodynamic approaches and has eight years of overall experience as a counsellor.
Background and approach
She is a member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques, emotionally-focused approaches and mindfulness. This mix is applied to issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, grief and trauma and a range of relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
Emma also works with attention-related difficulties, addictions and challenges around eating and body image. She pays attention to how early relationships and attachment patterns shape current difficulties. Sessions aim to build clearer understandings, develop practical coping skills and strengthen emotional awareness.
Conversations are shaped around what matters most to the person in front of her. Emma also addresses life changes such as separation, career shifts and caregiving strain. She supports people with chronic health concerns, dissociation, codependency and commitment struggles.
Her approach is steady, pragmatic and responsive to each person’s goals and pace.
What Emma works with
How Emma works
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Sessions & fees
How Emma's approach works online
Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationship experiences affect feelings and behaviour. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build safer, more reliable ways of connecting with others. Client-centred therapy emphasises listening closely and following the person's pace, offering a non-judgemental space to talk and be heard. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Emma will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and use that conversation to shape which methods are used. Together they agree on what to try, how to measure progress and when to adapt the plan.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, care duties or travel and make it easier to maintain continuity when schedules change.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
