Counsellor profile
Emma Barty, BACP
BACP counsellor - stress and parenting support
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- Mindfulness techniques
- DBT skills work
- Creative and somatic methods
About Emma
Emma Barty is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with nine years' experience. She offers help for stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression, and works with people facing parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, ADHD and autism spectrum concerns.
She uses plain talking alongside creative ways to work through problems. Sessions can include discussion, guided imagery and movement. Emma also draws on mindfulness exercises, somatic techniques and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy to help with sudden panic, low mood and overwhelming stress.
Her practical focus is on what people want to change and on small steps that fit into daily life. Emma describes an initial session as a chance to set goals, agree how to work together and check practical arrangements such as length and timing of sessions.
She has experience supporting people who are grieving, coping with illness or caring responsibilities, and those affected by domestic violence, abandonment and attachment issues. Her background includes roles with bereavement services and mental health charities, and she brings that experience into straightforward conversations about coping and recovery.
Emma aims to keep the work collaborative. She checks in about how therapy is going and adapts the approach where needed. People who prefer some creative or body-based methods alongside talking may find this style helpful.
How sessions work
How Emma uses approaches online
Emma commonly uses client-centred work and DBT-informed skills in online sessions. Client-centred work means the conversation focuses on what matters to the person and on practical goals they want to reach. DBT skills teach concrete techniques for tolerating distress, regulating strong emotions and improving relationships.She also uses mindfulness and somatic ideas to help people notice how thoughts and sensations affect mood. Mindfulness exercises are short practices to calm attention and reduce rumination. Somatic techniques involve simple body-based awareness and movement to ease physical tension linked to anxiety or trauma.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Emma will help clients decide together which approaches fit their needs, goals and preferences, and will review what helps as therapy progresses.
The therapist's biography lists online and telephone counselling as delivery options, but specific session formats should be confirmed before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into daily life, for example by avoiding travel, enabling shorter check-ins during a busy day, or allowing work around childcare. Telephone sessions can suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who need a quieter, lower-bandwidth option.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of family or parenting concerns does she help with?
She works with adults experiencing parenting strain, family conflict and the stresses of caring roles. Issues such as grief related to family, parental guilt and isolation are also part of her practice.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
Her style mixes client-centred talking with practical techniques. That includes mindfulness, somatic exercises and DBT skills to manage stress and strong emotions.
How much experience does she have with trauma and bereavement?
She has nine years' experience and has worked with bereavement services and mental health charities, supporting people through grief, trauma and loss.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions can be arranged for international clients. Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography mentions online and telephone counselling. Please confirm current session formats before booking.
How are costs handled?
Fees vary with location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin?
Choose the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.