Emma works with clients in a counselling style founded in the traditional personal centred approach, holding her clients in high regard and walking along side her clients as they discover their internal resources for change.
Approaching problem coping mechanisms - like alcohol - from the position that the client is neither to blame or at fault for having a problematic relationship an addictive substance.
Emma uses the compassion based and research lead coaching skills she learned from her This Naked Mind & Grey Area Drinking Alcohol Coach training. This strengths based and solution focused approach is supported by and enhanced with her current studentship as part of Dr. Gabor Maté's year long Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training.
Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapy method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté to help people suffering from the effects of trauma and addiction to experience “deep healing and transformation”. Gabor is a world authority on trauma and addiction.
Working with Emma will involve a wonderful, deep and textured journey into the reasons why you drink in order to discover your personal route out of being chortled by something outside of you to sooth your internal distress.
Distress can come from, past trauma, intrusive thoughts, high sensory/sensitive experiences of the world to name a few. The work we would do together is both physical and mental to create a scaffolding of practices to support a regulated nervous system and build the skills to be with intense feelings and thoughts without needing to use and external coping mechanism to manage them.
We will also look at what elements of your historical lived experience might be causing you to have heightened responses to certain external factor so that you can learn to live a more peaceful and less reactive existence.
Sounds heavy?
It can be, but it is also the most rewarding and extraordinary journal back to your essence of self and the personal you were always meant to be, before the world got a hold of you made you feel like you weren’t OK just the way you are.
We laugh, we cry and we grow together.
There is no greater gift you can give yourself than the journey back to your authentic self. Emma is on this journey herself and has lived experience of a relationship with alcohol that damaged her sense of self.
