Emma Rigg, BACP

Emma Rigg offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or life changes. She works with issues linked to LGBT concerns and trauma, and helps people who feel isolated, stuck or unsure how to move forward. Emma speaks plainly, listens closely, and aims to make the first steps feel manageable rather than daunting.

Emma has six years of professional experience and holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. She believes each person knows their own story and brings their own strengths to therapy. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and on small, steady steps that can make life feel better.

Her practice draws on attachment-based ideas to look at relational patterns and how they affect current coping. She also uses client-centred work to make space for the client’s experience and priorities. Together these approaches help with anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties and reactions to loss or abuse.

In sessions, Emma aims to listen without judgement and to help people notice patterns in thoughts, feelings and behaviour. She supports practical plans for change while attending to emotional experience. The tone is straightforward and collaborative, with an emphasis on building the person’s own resources.

To begin, clients follow the site process to match with a therapist and arrange sessions according to availability. Emma works in the United Kingdom and conducts therapy in English.

How Emma’s approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape the way someone connects, copes and asks for support; it can help when patterns of avoidance, anxiety or clinginess make life harder. Client-centred therapy puts the person’s own goals and experience at the centre of each session, giving space to be heard and to make choices about change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Emma will collaborate with the client to decide which methods feel most useful, and she will adapt the pace and focus as needs and goals become clearer. That way the plan reflects the person’s preferences rather than a fixed template.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions around daily life and keeping appointments that might otherwise be hard to reach. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available options before booking so you know what to expect. Many people find that remote sessions make it easier to attend regular appointments, allow quicker check-ins between meetings, and reduce travel time while keeping the therapeutic relationship central.