Emily Bland

My working hours during term time only are:

Tuesday 10am-3pm 

Wednesday 12pm-5pm (evening spaces available on request)

Thursday 12pm-5pm

Friday 10am-3pm

For more details on my availability and to book a session, please email:

emily@emilyblandcounselling.com

It takes a lot of courage to reach out and ask for help. Whatever you're facing, you don't need to do it alone. 

I work with individuals and couples from all sorts of backgrounds who may be facing many different kinds of challenges including; anxiety, depression, eating disorders, or it might be that they simply want to create meaningful and lasting change in their lives. I also work with clients who have Autism and ADHD. And I'm specially trained to work with C-PTSD and trauma resulting from coercive control or domestic abuse in intimate relationships.

Therapy is a journey we go on together. I’ll be right beside you holding a confidential, safe, non-judgemental space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings. We can work together to help you process whatever difficulties you’re facing, and develop strategies that can move you towards a calmer, more stable and peaceful way of being.

I'm an integrated psychotherapist and counsellor. That means I work using several different therapeutic approaches. Depending on the type of problem or issue you’d like help with, I can combine these approaches in a way that’s specific to your individual needs and your goals for therapy. There is no 'one size fits all'. I'm happy to work with your preferences and will also suggest different methods and techniques we could try if I feel they would be beneficial.

I work with individuals online and with couples online or in person. 

The fees for individual sessions are £65 online. The fees for couples are £90 online or £100 in-person.

For clients who are students or on low incomes I also have limited space to offer up to eight online, low-cost sessions at a fee of £40. Please ask me for more details. 

Before our first session I suggest having a ten-minute call, so we can say hello, and also to give you an opportunity to outline your reasons for wanting to start therapy, as well as ask me any questions.

After we've arranged a date for the first session, I'll send you my working agreement. It's a couple of pages to read and has more information about my practice policies. I'll also ask you to fill out a very brief client information form for my records. But apart from that, there's no other paperwork involved. 

To help me get a better idea of how you'd prefer to work with me, in our first session we'll cover your past experiences with therapy (if you have any). It's useful for me to know what you feel was helpful and what you feel didn't work so well. We can also use this first session to talk about what you'd like to get out of therapy and set some goals to work towards.

Currently taking online clients only.

I feel that a good supervisory relationship is characterised by a wide scope of curiosity that is not just about the client but also about the therapist.

The work, if done right, is naturally discombobulating and will impact on us as practitioners in many ways. I offer a reflective, supportive and informative space for us to collaborate to explore the professional and ethical complexities of your client work and your thoughts and feelings about it, without any shame or judgement.

My position on supervision starts with the belief that the supervisee already has within them the answer. However, none of us can continuously mentalise without some kind of scaffold - especially not when we are so up close to the work. I feel my role as supervisor is to be that scaffold, to help illuminate any blind spots and jump-start any stalled mentalising. If you find yourself feeling stuck with a particular client, I can help you re-find the direction.

I'm a Level 7 practitioner and have been working in private practice with clients six years. I'm an integrated therapist by training and am comfortable working with different modalities including CBT, humanistic, existentialist, and psychodynamic. All my work is underpinned by the core values of the person-centred approach and in my own practice I lean heavily towards the psychodynamic modality.

I offer clinical supervision for therapists at all levels of experience and also for supervisors.

My fees for qualified therapists are £75 for 90 mins.

For trainee therapists, it's £45 for 60 mins or £60 for 90 mins.