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Emma McGowan, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesDepression
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Emma McGowan offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood or big life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what is happening now and what matters most to each person. Emma aims to help people feel more like themselves again through steady, collaborative work.
Emma trained in psychology and counselling, holding a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Foundation Degree in Counselling.
Background and approach
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has three years of clinical experience working with a range of difficulties that affect everyday life. In sessions she combines several approaches.
Client-Centred work focuses on the person in front of her, building a trusting conversation and supporting self-direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going and explores small experiments to change them. Psychodynamic ideas help make sense of repeated patterns and earlier experiences that shape current feelings.
Emma supports people with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma and relationship and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses concerns such as eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD and coping with life transitions. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication problems and forgiveness.
Sessions are offered online in a variety of formats and Emma is open to working with people living outside the United Kingdom. She encourages a step-by-step approach so effort is paced and realistic. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and book a first session.
How Emma’s approaches work online
Emma uses client-centred work to start therapy in a calm, person-focused way. This approach means the conversation is guided by what the person brings, helping to build trust and clarify goals. It is useful for people who need someone to really listen and reflect back their concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and to try small, practical changes. CBT can help with anxiety, sleep or low mood by teaching skills to reduce symptoms and test new ways of thinking and behaving.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. Emma works collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals and preferences rather than imposing one style. Sessions can blend techniques so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which gives flexibility for different days and routines. Video lets visual cues guide the conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a problem, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring or travel commitments and to continue progress between sessions.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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