Emma Pearson
I’m an experienced psychotherapist, working in both London and in Tunbridge Wells, as well as online, with individual adults and couples.
I have a Masters in Humanistic Psychotherapy and am a registered member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). I adhere to the UKCP code of ethics.
I have been running my own private practice since 2018 and working with clients since 2016. I started out working with individual adults and have since done further training to work with couples as well.
My particular interest is in relationships and what can go wrong in our relationships, and the trauma that can result. By relationships I mean how we relate to ourselves, or with our environment or our context, as well as with the other people in our lives.
If you’ve never done it before, counselling or psychotherapy can feel like quite a strange and scary thing and so initially I aim to create a friendly, warm, accepting space that feels safe so you can begin to unpack what is troubling you. Once our work is underway, we will be able to start exploring the experiences, themes, patterns, beliefs, loss – whatever it is – that brought you to therapy.
We call it talking therapy but it’s not just about talking. Talking is what we humans do to build understanding and make a connection. By talking in therapy we are learning how to understand and connect with each other enough for you to feel seen and heard. Talking also allows us to learn how to express our feelings healthily, which is really about connecting with our bodies. Bringing this all together can be a powerful experience, particularly when it comes to the things you may have struggled to discuss before.
Most of us grow up with a particular frame of reference for ourselves and for our relationships and that, naturally, just feels like the way things are. But as we move through life, this can start to become quite a rigid way of being and restrict how fully we can live and be in our most important relationships. Therapy can give us a chance to meet ourselves and our partners, family members, friends afresh and breath new air into the dynamic. It can challenge this old way of seeing ourselves and others. It invites us to find ways to be more flexible and more able to build the life and relationships we want rather than fit within the one we may have felt we had to lead. In my view this will always be a work in progress, rather than a goal to achieve, but I believe it’s an endeavour well worth embarking on.
Online and/or telephone appointments are available.
