Emily Foord, BACP

Emily Foord is a BACP counsellor working in the United Kingdom with six years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger or depression, and those struggling with addictions, relationship difficulties or parenting strain.

Emily uses a collaborative style. She does not direct or judge. Instead she helps people talk through patterns that keep causing problems and looks at practical ways to change them. Sessions focus on understanding what is happening now and trying different ways of responding to it.

Her background includes a BSc in Psychology and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling, and she has worked in residential addiction and mental health settings. That work included group and individual therapy and psycho-education, which she draws on when planning sessions with people.

She also has experience in charitable counselling and additional training in approaches such as Motivational Interviewing and Radically Open Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. Emily pays attention to how habits, attachment and past family experiences influence current reactions and relationships.

Practical concerns she commonly supports include compulsive behaviours, obsessive thinking, panic, grief and the strain of long-term caregiving. She also helps people manage feelings of abandonment, guilt, shame and isolation. Her approach is straightforward and focused on making manageable changes in day-to-day life.

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