About Emily
Emily Whalley is a counsellor who blends somatic listening with relational work to help people feel steadier in their daily lives. She holds BACP registration and works online with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use to manage stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship pain.
Emily draws on somatic approaches to notice how the body holds stress and emotion. She also uses attachment-based and client-centred ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
The work is conversational and paced to each person’s needs. Many people come because they feel stuck with shame, self-doubt or grief. Emily helps them make sense of past hurts and everyday triggers.
She supports those facing transitions such as separation, fatherhood questions, career shifts or loss. Her background includes roles in therapeutic organisations and online practice, giving experience with people living abroad and those who prefer remote sessions. She has practised for three years and holds BACP as the listed credential.
Sessions can include grounding exercises, reflective talk and practical coping skills. The aim is to build steadier ways of feeling and relating, not quick fixes. Emily works collaboratively and respects each person’s pace and choices.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Emily blends somatic work with attachment-based and client-centred approaches to help people understand both body signals and relationship patterns. Somatic work invites attention to bodily sensations and simple grounding practices to reduce tension and overwhelm. This can help with anxiety, trauma-related reactions and stress by bringing immediate ways to regulate how the body feels.Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship experiences shape current ways of relating and reacting. It helps people spot repeating patterns in connection and intimacy so they can try different responses. Client-centred principles keep the process collaborative and paced to each person, with the counsellor following the client’s concerns and preferences.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods to use. This collaborative process means therapy is adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible access to these methods through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. People can work from home or while travelling, choose shorter check-ins or longer sessions, and pick the format that fits their life and energy. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and conversational work to each online format, making therapy practical and accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English