Counsellor
Emma Ellis
BACP 150717
She/her
I want you to feel genuinely heard, understood, safe, and supported in what you're carrying.
WHO I help
For people going through difficult changes — and struggling to make sense of them.
Emma works with adults navigating difficult life transitions: loss, changes in health, relationship shifts, work stress, or simply feeling lost and uncertain about who they are or where life is heading.
Many have been trying to cope alone for a long time. They hold back how they really feel, try not to upset others, focus so much on everyone else's needs that their own quietly disappear. On the outside they appear to be managing. Inside, they're running on empty.
Over time, this can lead to loneliness, strained relationships, and a sense of being disconnected from the things that once brought meaning and joy.
People often develop ways of protecting themselves that once helped them cope — but that are now getting in the way of living fully.
how i work
A compassionate space to feel less alone with what you're carrying.
Working with Emma feels supportive, calm, and genuinely accepting. She works at your pace and integrates person-centred and integrative approaches — tailoring the work to what you bring, not a predetermined method.
There's no pressure to say the right thing, arrive with clarity, or have it together. This is a space to bring what's actually going on. To be listened to without judgement. To begin making sense of things.
Over time, therapy with Emma often brings greater clarity — about patterns, needs, and the stories people have been carrying. People begin to feel less alone, more connected to themselves, and clearer about how they want to move forward.
Therapy isn't about fixing you — it's about gently making sense of what's happened, and finding new ways to relate to yourself.
It's nice to meet you!
Hugs trees. Collects heart-shaped things. Navigationally catastrophic.
Emma came to counselling through her own experience of it nearly 20 years ago, at a difficult time in her life. It gave her a sense of being heard and understood in a way she hadn't experienced before — and lit the desire to offer that to others.
Her family restores her completely — time with her children and grandson makes everything else fall away. Nature does it too, especially trees. She loves them and yes, she does hug them.
She takes quiet pleasure in finding unexpected heart shapes in ordinary things — pebbles, leaves, crisps, once a tree. She collects them. She also has a genuinely terrible sense of direction. If she confidently says turn right, there is a statistical case for turning left.
Specialisms
Anxiety
Depression
Grief & loss
Low self-worth
Identity
Life transitions
Stress & burnout
Chronic pain
Perimenopause
