Emily Smith, BACP

Emily Smith is a BACP-registered counsellor who offers calm, straightforward support for people under pressure. She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns and ADHD. Emily aims to make sessions easy to understand and gently paced, so clients can talk about what matters most to them.

She uses an approach rooted in client-centred principles, emphasising listening and real empathy. That often means naming patterns from attachment and looking at how early relationships shape current struggles. Practical skills from dialectical behaviour therapy can be brought in when people need help with emotion regulation and impulsivity.

Emily also draws on Jungian ideas and mindfulness to help people connect with inner meaning and stay grounded day to day. This mix is adapted to what each person needs rather than applied the same way to everyone. Sessions are conversational and aim to build clearer ways of thinking and behaving.

Her background includes three years of professional practice in the United Kingdom alongside registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Emily describes herself as LGBTQ+ friendly and has worked with a wide range of concerns including chronic illness, caregiving stress, relationship difficulties and identity loss.

People who want a compassionate listener and practical tools may find her style helpful. To begin, the site matching process is used to arrange a first session and discuss what a helpful path forward would look like.

How her approaches work in online sessions

Emily commonly combines client-centred work with attachment-focused ideas and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy. Client-centred therapy means the counsellor listens without judgement and helps the person lead the pace and focus of sessions; it suits people who need a calm space to make sense of their thoughts. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationship patterns affect current feelings and reactions, which is useful for issues like abandonment and communication problems. Dialectical behaviour therapy contributes clear skills for managing strong emotions, impulsivity and distress in day-to-day life.

Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Emily will discuss options with each person and jointly choose what feels most helpful based on goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps keep sessions relevant and tailored rather than fixed.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during breaks, or removing the need to be on camera when people prefer audio only. It also makes it possible to continue work during illness or relocation, while still using the same therapeutic approaches and practical skills.