Emma Dalgleish
Experienced counsellor for relationship and trauma issues
About Emma
Emma Dalgleish is a BACP-registered counsellor with 22 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and wider mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. Emma aims to offer practical, compassionate support in everyday language and simple steps.
Emma adapts her way of working to each person. She uses an empathic, honest and non-judgemental style to help people talk through difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and finding manageable ways to cope and move forward. Her background includes work across a broad range of concerns from addictions and bipolar issues to parenting strain and career stress. She also supports people dealing with attachment issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
This variety means she can draw on different approaches to match the issue at hand. Emma blends relational methods with practical tools. She uses client-centred listening to follow what matters most to the person.
She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns, and on techniques from other approaches for specific challenges. Sessions are direct and conversational rather than overly clinical. Emma aims to help people feel heard and to leave each session with one or two practical steps they can try between meetings.
Her approach suits people who want clear, steady support while they work through difficult life changes.
What Emma works with
How Emma works
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect feelings today. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns, improve emotional connection and reduce repeating cycles. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and helping the person find their own answers; it is useful when someone needs a calm space to process feelings and make choices.Emma will work collaboratively to find which approach suits a person best. She discusses goals, listens to preferences and adjusts methods as therapy progresses. Deciding on an approach is part of the work together rather than a one-time choice.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and feel more like face-to-face meetings. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into short breaks. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, written reflections and ongoing contact between sessions. Together these options make therapy easier to fit around work, caring duties and daily routines while still keeping a steady therapeutic focus.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
