Emma Kehoe
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This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Hello,
I offer a secure, supportive, non-judgmental space where issues can be explored in your own time. I am there to work with you to look at what you think is best for you, I will not offer advice or tell you what to do. I will walk alongside you offering support, encouragement, empathy, guidance and gentle challenging.
I work in an integrative way, using different counselling theories. The theories I practice are:-
- Person-centred - offering you acceptance, empathy and working alongside you to look at your core conditions and self worth
- Cognitive behavioural - that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave
- Psychodynamic - exploring how your unconscious thoughts affect your current behaviour
- Existentialism - exploring meaning through a philosophical perspective
If you are happy to you will also have the opportunity to explore feelings through the use of visual exercises, mood cards, stones, etc.
I work both short and long term.
We can arrange a first session for you to talk about what has brought you to counselling, and experience a session with me.
I offer face to face, telephone and online counselling. In summer months, walking sessions are available also in a local park.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained at the Inter-Psyche Training Institute in Kent and gained an accredited Diploma in Integrative Counselling. Inter-Psyche is the only counselling and psychotherapy training centre based within the NHS and trains student to BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) accredited diploma standard.
I previously worked for The Bariatric Consultancy and delivered 10-week intensive one to one CBT counselling. This counselling focused on addressing people’s relationship to food and developing new coping strategies. The aim of these sessions were to help people to better understand their triggers to disordered eating and to explore alternative strategies when they are dealing with life events and trauma. I also set goals to improve self-esteem and improve eating behaviours and helped people to think positively about themselves and help them implement change.
I previously also volunteered at St. Christopher's Hospice, providing 12-week one-to-one bereavement support which provided people with a space to talk about the consequences of their loss and how they were grieving. In these sessions I worked with people to help them think about any changes they may need to make and find a way to a new life that includes remembering the person who has died in the way that they wished.
I have extensive experience of working with people from the emergency services such as the Metropolitan Police Service and front line staff in the NHS such as Paramedics, Call Handlers and other frontline staff.
I am currently working privately, working in an integrative way, ensuring that the needs of my clients are met.
Further Training & Continuing Professional Development:
- Eating Disorders Explored
- Working Therapeutically With Clients With a Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Safeguarding Adults and Children training
- Trauma and Suicide Protocol
- The links between Medication and Mental Health
- Undertaking Psychological Assessments
- Body image: prevalence, causes and consequences
- Domestic Violence training
- Telephone counselling training
- Bereavement training (6 days)
- Attachment - Development of identity in childhood
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Obesity and the psychological impact on people's emotional well-being working in a CBT focused way (2 days)
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
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.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£55.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
A weekly session, including the initial assessment session, lasts 50 minutes and costs £55 per session.
When I work
Monday - Fridays
