About Emma
Emma Barty is a counsellor with nine years of practice who draws on a range of approaches to support people through hard times. She holds BACP registration and works online with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally. Sessions focus on what each person needs in the room and on small, practical steps they can try between meetings.
Her style blends talking therapy with body-aware methods and mindfulness. She uses somatic approaches to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centred conversation and skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to help manage strong emotions and reduce overwhelm. Emma has experience supporting people facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, ADHD, and trauma. She also works with concerns such as chronic pain, isolation, shame, and questions about life purpose.
Practical coping strategies and paced exploration of difficult memories are common themes in her work. Sessions may include breath work, grounding exercises, guided imagery, emotional skills practice, and reflective conversation. Creativity and movement are offered when helpful, with options that suit each person’s comfort and ability.
Emma keeps the focus on what the client wants to change and on realistic steps toward that goal. The first meeting is a chance to set goals, agree how to work together, and plan session frequency. People are invited to ask questions and shape the plan so it fits their life and needs.
How Emma's approaches work online
Emma draws on somatic work and client-centred counselling to help people understand both thoughts and bodily responses. Somatic therapy invites attention to breath, posture and physical sensations to show how stress or trauma lives in the body; it can help with panic, chronic tension and reconnecting after distress. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of each session and focuses on listening, reflection and building the client’s own sense of direction and choice.She also uses elements of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to teach practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. These exercises are straightforward and can be practised between sessions to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Choosing which approach to use is a joint process - the therapist helps clients identify what feels most useful and adapts methods to match goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. That flexibility makes it easier to fit sessions around family life, work and other commitments. It also lets people try different formats and find what feels most comfortable while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English