Emily Smith

Face-to-face counselling on Tuesdays in my spacious therapy room in Meopham.

Online availability at other times during the week. Please contact me for current availability.

Hi, I'm Emily and I am a positive, warm and empathic counsellor, passionate about helping others live emotionally healthy and fulfilled lives.

I am fully trained and qualified to help you safely explore the emotional difficulties you are facing. My role is to offer you a safe space, where you can be listened to without judgement, and together we can work through the things that are holding you back or bringing you down. After our work together, my aim is for you to feel stronger in yourself and better able to manage and thrive in life.

I offer a free 15 minute telephone consultation before starting counselling in order for you to ask any questions, with no strings attached.

Time-limited (6 or 12 weeks, e.g.) or open ended counselling - whichever suits you best.

For those interested in the finer details, I am an Integrative Counsellor, drawing on several different approaches in my work with clients. However, at my core I am person-centred, which means I offer a safe and non-judgemental space and I very deliberately take my lead from you in our work together.

Each client is entirely unique and has experienced life in a way that no-one else has. I see my job as coming alongside you to help explore, understand and accept your own experiences and difficulties, in the knowledge that this very process can eventually bring about the change we so long for.

In our first session together I would make time to hear about your current challenges and what you hope to gain from counselling. We would also use it to gauge whether we would be well-suited to work together. Your experience matters, and that extends to how you experience me as a counsellor. If I don’t seem like the right person to help, then I will fully support your wanting to look elsewhere and will offer some suggestions for alternative sources of help.