Emma Sims

I currently have availability for new clients and offer daytime and some evening appointments. I aim to be flexible where possible.

If I am unable to offer a suitable time immediately, I will let you know when availability is likely to open up.

I offer calm, thoughtful online counselling for adults across the UK who are used to coping, but finding things harder than they let on. You might be feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or carrying the weight of loss or change, even if it’s difficult to explain exactly why.

I’m a person-centred counsellor, and my approach is shaped around you rather than a fixed programme or set of techniques. I work in a steady and attentive way, offering a space where you can talk openly and begin to make sense of what’s going on without feeling rushed or judged.

Before training as a counsellor, I spent over twenty years in senior leadership roles in education and the public sector. I understand the weight that comes with responsibility, and what it takes to keep going quietly under strain. I also understand what it can feel like when the life you’ve been living no longer quite fits.

I have experience supporting people through bereavement, serious illness and end of life, including in a hospice setting, and I have undertaken specialist training with the National Autistic Society.

Finding the right counsellor matters. Not just their qualifications or experience, but whether you feel comfortable with them, and whether something in how they describe their work makes you think, quietly, this might be the right place.

I hope this might be that place for you.

I work with adults experiencing stress, anxiety and burnout; grief, loss and serious illness; significant life changes; and the quieter, harder-to-name sense that something needs to be different. You don’t need to arrive knowing where to begin. We can find that together.

There can be moments of lightness or humour alongside more difficult conversations. Counselling doesn’t have to feel relentlessly heavy, and sometimes it is in those quieter shifts that something begins to change.

I work online with adults across the UK. Although I am based in Nottinghamshire, location is no barrier, sessions take place via a secure video platform from wherever feels comfortable and private for you.

I offer a free 15-minute initial conversation before we begin, so you can ask any questions and get a sense of whether working together feels right. There is no obligation to continue.

If you decide to go ahead, the first session is a chance to begin rather than to have everything worked out. We will talk gently about what has brought you here and what you are hoping for. There is no assessment to pass and no right or wrong way to approach it.

I offer 50-minute weekly counselling sessions, and a longer 90-minute single session option for those who would prefer a focused, standalone conversation about a specific issue or decision, without committing to ongoing work.

Sessions take place via a secure video platform, from wherever feels comfortable and private for you.