Emma’s works with individuals using talk therapy and her fee is €60 per session
Psychotherapy Training and Accreditation
Emma holds a First Class MSc in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from the Turning Point Institute, accredited by University College Cork. She also holds an MSc in Software Engineering. She is a pre-accredited member with the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and is currently working towards full accreditation.
She engages in regular clinical supervision and is committed to ongoing training and professional development.
Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Approach
Emma works in a non-judgemental way within a humanistic framework. She uses reflection, review, feedback and safe expression. She places each client at the heart of the therapeutic process, working collaboratively allows her to consider the needs and personality of each client in terms of her approach and she endeavours to ensure each therapy session suits the clients pace.
Emma integrates aspects of existential psychotherapy and person-centred principles in her approach as well as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). Where appropriate she uses tools such as Art / Creativity and Image work, Mindfulness and Boundary work to explore client behaviour patterns leading to the client’s self-awareness, healing, growth, and empowerment.
Counselling Experience and Areas of Interest
Emma started working as a psychotherapist with Let’s Get Talking Galway in 2021, she started her private practice at Mind and Body works in 2024. She has helped clients in times of change, grief and crisis who were feeling depressed, anxious or stressed. She explores and develops insights into what the client is doing, why they are doing it and what the need is behind it, then helps them find more fruitful ways to do it. Often this involves identifying behaviours, beliefs, and attitudes from the past.
Emma has worked with clients on a variety of issues including but not limited to:
- Anxiety
- Confidence and self-worth
- Depression
- Grief, loss and bereavement
- Panic
- Relationships – family dynamics
- Problems in marriages and other relationships
- Parentification
- Parental Alcoholism
- Body Dysmorphia
- Shame
- Stress
- Trauma (Childhood)
- Work-related stress and burnout
- Work-related bullying
Emma’s particular areas of interest include working with clients who have experienced difficult and traumatic childhoods, attachment issues and trauma responses and how issues from the past are experienced in the present. Emma completed research for her dissertation focusing on Refugees Experience of Psychotherapy in Ireland.
