Emily Ferry Woodard

I am currently accepting new clients.

I offer online sessions.

I'm currently offering a limited number of outdoor walk and talk or sit-spot sessions from a green space in Bristol which incorporate aspects of ecosomatics and ecotherapy.  

 My name is Emily, I'm a qualified Therapeutic Counsellor, registered with the BACP.

I offer a warm, compassionate approach where I listen with an open heart and hold what you bring to counselling with care, non-judgement and respect.

I offer sessions online from the comfort of your home, or outdoors in a green space incorporating ecotherapy and kinship with the more-than-human world as a resource for wellbeing and connection.

I support you to tend to your heart, land in your body, and feel held. Through trust in the intelligence that emerges from the body and the emotional landscape, I will support you to make sense of what you are feeling, and what it means to you. My approach is gentle and patient, giving the time and space you need to process your experiences, while noticing and tending to your nervous system. I will be led by you, ensuring you have choice in what you'd like to focus on in a session, and of the pace.

I will guide you in your movement towards what you need to navigate the challenges you are facing in your life with a sense of wholeness, agency and empowerment. 

I’m an integrative counsellor, my work is rooted in a person-centred approach. The models of care I integrate into my practice are Compassion Focussed Therapy, Focussing, Emotion Focussed Therapy, Therapeutic Creative Expression, Embodied Therapy, Ecosomatics and Ecotherapy.

I work in a client led, trauma informed way where we collaboratively establish what a safe space would mean to you, as a foundation to building a trusting therapeutic relationship. I will welcome you to express as much or as little as you feel comfortable, and emphasise that all your emotions are welcome without judgement. I bring curiosity to the process, stemming from a deep honouring of the human capacity to feel and be moved by what we go through in life.

Together we will explore what you are holding, and how this is impacting you in your life now. Whether there is something from the past, or something more recent that is feeling hard to handle on your own, the counselling process can help you to gain deeper insights about your life, yourself, and your relationships. I will guide you to find clarity on how you’d like to navigate what is happening.

I endeavour to work in a way that empowers you, that acknowledges and appreciates your unique qualities and ways of moving through life, drawing on your inner resources and skills which hold you, as well as other branches of support around you.

 My approach to counselling acknowledges how structural conditions and systems of oppression can contribute to the wounds and challenges we face. I work in a non-pathologising way, placing trust in the body’s physical and emotional responses to harmful situations. I try to understand what happened that may have caused a response of distress, and support you to get in touch with an embodied sense of warmth, self-compassion and a solid self-trust.

I offer the option of a free 15 minute introductory call where you can ask any questions and we can ensure we both feel happy to work together.