Emily Austen

Emily provides an empathetic, supportive space for clients to process painful, confusing or complicated thoughts and feelings. She believes that clients posses their own resources to heal themselves and offers a therapeutic relationship to allow those resources to emerge.  Working integratively, Emily draws from ideas around developmental and relational patterns which may be causing difficulty with a clients sense of self and place in the world.  She incorporates a compassionate mindful approach to help clients manage issues around low-self esteem, perfectionism and anxiety. Emily will shape her approach depending on her clients needs. She endeavours to work in a way which is anti-oppressive.

Emily has had a creative and varied career path before training as a therapist, with a background in theatre and the visual arts. Her creativity is evident in her work with clients. This shows up in the flexibility and openness with which she approaches the therapeutic work.  Emily originally trained to work as a counsellor with children in schools but was drawn to working with adults when she saw how many of the parents of the children she was working with were struggling. Emily worked with the charity Little Village offering guidance to parents experiencing financial and emotional hardship. She also works as a specialist mentor with students who are Autistic and have ADHD. She has a passion for reaching those in need of mental health support who do not have the financial means of accessing private care.

Emily Austen is a trainee integrative psychotherapist and is a member of  the UKCP. She works within The NHS Counselling Service, Wandsworth.