Emma Aram
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About me
Hi and welcome, I’m Emma and I am passionate about supporting people who are or have been struggling with harmful relationships and their effects.
Do you feel tired and anxious at work? Maybe you are struggling with workplace difficulties including groups or individuals, and you’re finding it hard to drag yourself to work in the morning. Maybe you feel constant dread at the end of the weekend. Are you experiencing physical illness like being nauseous, headaches or tension in your muscles or negative thoughts? Are you finding this is affecting your sleep and how you are with others?
Maybe you are still struggling with the way you feel because of the negative relationships from a previous job, and have found that it affects you now, with new people. Sometimes we are not aware of what went on until we start to go through it and through therapy it is possible to understand and move on from these painful moments.
I can help you to understand your anxiety, and the way you feel first thing in the morning before work. I can help you to find techniques to help with those feelings, to be able to feel stronger when it comes to work. To understand why it is affecting your home life and other relationships. We can find ways to improve the way you can manage these feelings and improve your mood.
Before I became a counsellor, I worked in what became a very poisonous environment, I would wake up before my alarm and just didn’t want to go to the office. I would dread what was on the emails, what messages would be coming through and even seeing certain people. It got to a level that it would affect other parts of my life.
I have found that over my time as a therapist, work plays a large part in people’s lives. Clients I have worked with, find that they have a space to talk about what is happening and how to work through their feelings about it. They have an open space to be able to walk through what is going on. To figure out the best way to move forward and release the toxicity. This process helps clients to feel better and to improve their lives in other areas.
How can we work together? I am mainly online, which means I would send you a link to do a video session. For those locally, I encourage getting out into the local area, parks or onto Epsom Downs. Nature has a beautiful way of helping with mental health.
I hold multiple qualifications, including a Degree in therapeutic counselling, a Diploma in Counselling from a BACP-accredited course, and certificates in Walk and Talk Therapy, Addiction Counselling, and Trauma Treatment, among others. I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online (ACTO).
Training, qualifications & experience
My passion is working with adults outside in nature, as the effect of nature in therapy can have quite a response. I use Epsom Downs as a main walking site, but I can move around the area including Banstead, Epsom, Tadworth, Walton and Boxhill. Although I am trained to work in a face-to-face room environment, this can be intimidating, so I retrained to work online, via text and calls which I completed before COVID-19.
I have worked for a children's trust and within a university setting helping students and staff.
Degree in Therapeutic Counselling BSc Hons.
Certificate in Walk and Talk therapy.
Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Level 2 professional member of ACTO (Association of Counsellors and therapist online).
OCST1 Online Counselling Diploma.
Diploma in Counselling (BACP accredited course).
Level 4 Certificate in Counselling: Psychodynamic Theory.
Level 4 Certificate in Approaches to Counselling Children and Young Adults.
Level 2 Addiction Counselling
Body Psychotherapy.
Assessment and risk in Higher education.
Gender and Transgender certificate.
Trauma Treatment Mastery Course.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
The Association for Counselling and Therapy Online
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
I also cover somatic otherwise known as Body therapy, working with the inner child. Where requested and local, ecotherapy, walking outside in nature.
Therapies offered
Fees
£50.00 per session
Free initial telephone or online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£50 per 50-minute session. A discount is available for previous clients who refer new clients. Please contact me for more details.
When I work
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I am willing to discuss times outside of evening hours.
Further information
I am a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists, and the Association of Counsellors and Therapists Online. I work with those over 18 which has included students and staff from the University of Surrey. I originally started working with clients face-to-face in a room. This changed after covid and I decided to take my clients online like many counsellors. I have found some clients find this restrictive, so this has evolved to walk with clients in the local area. This has become very popular, but there are limited spaces.
