Emma Rowlands
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About me
Looking for a different approach to therapy? Feeling blocked? Issues still unresolved for you - and continuing to hold you back?
I’m offering something different. Whilst I have foundational training in a number of approaches, in over a decade of practice I have found it is the somatic (body-focused) approaches which offer the most resolution for my clients. I myself have found these techniques useful in my own therapy; I now offer this wealth of experience to you, my client. These approaches work incredibly effectively online as well as in-person (London, SE1).
What would a session be like? First, we would explore your issues together through conversation to find a focus. Then, I may suggest a self-applied embodied intervention. So, for example, I would tap on me and and invite you to tap on you; or I would hold certain points on my body, and invite you to hold those same points on your own body. Or, I might use positive affirmations, and then ask you to repeat them out loud, or internally, to yourself.
These approaches draw on a range of traditional psychotherapy modalities, alongside emerging insights from neurobiology, attachment theory, and trauma-informed therapy. All techniques are combined with listening and conversation, and fit firmly and safely within a recognisable psychotherapeutic frame. I am also very open to exploring the transpersonal and psycho-spiritual dimensions of your situation, if that feels right for you.
I ask lots of questions and listen deeply. I will take you seriously, and yet use humour to do so.
Whatever you’re struggling with right now I invite you to get in touch. I have extensive experience of working with a wide range of issues including: anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, bereavement, trauma, dissociative disorders, and illness (acute illness, chronic illness, and cancer), including illness not responding to medical interventions. However, I will also treat you as an individual, and help you explore how your struggles and symptoms affect you. Together we will find a way forward where you hold the agency for potential and change.
In terms of practicalities, I work online nationally, and in-person in Central London, SE1. Whatever your particular presenting issue, I invite you to have a free, no-obligation phone call to explore your situation further.
My practice:
I am trauma-informed, disability friendly, and LGBTQI+ affirming. I have trained in integrative counselling / psychotherapy at the Minster Centre, London, and this training allows me to draw on psychodynamic, humanistic, and relational approaches.
More recently, I have trained in a number of specific trauma therapy techniques, including approaches which fit under the umbrella terms: energy psychotherapy and energy psychology. I am a practitioner of Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT); and as far as I know, I am the only therapist in the country integrating these two approaches.
I am also connected with a couple of trauma therapy / energy psychotherapy organisations. Specifically, I have worked as an affiliate therapist for The Metta Centre for Trauma Therapy (formerly known as MEET), in Oxford. I currently see clients at The Flame Centre, London, and my work is influenced by that of Ruthie Smith, author of 'Energy, Soul-connecting and Awakening consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm' (published in 2024 by Karnac).
Please know my intention is always for your health, healing, and wholeness. I speak traditional and contemporary psychotherapy. I speak posh and chav. I speak alternative, and practical common sense. Do send me a message to find out more :)
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Integrative Counselling (The Minster Centre, London)
Certificate in Energy Psychotherapy: energy psychology for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals (Converging Streams, London), 2013-2014
Certified Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) Practitioner, 2017
Certified Deep Brain Orienting (DBR) practitioner, 2021
Experience
Whilst training as a therapist I worked for mental health charities and in drug and alcohol recovery settings. I now work in private practice with a broad range of general adult presentations: anxiety, depression, cancer, trauma and health problems, including health problems not responding to medical interventions.
Member organisations
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Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Trauma Therapy
- Spiritual & Transpersonal Counselling
- Illness, including illness not responding to medical interventions
- Energy Psychology
- Energy Psychotherapy
- Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT)
- Tapping
- Intention work, guided visualisations and mantras
- Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Therapies offered
Fees
Free initial telephone session
Concessions offered for
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I work online and in-person.
In-person practice is based in London, Waterloo, SE1.
