Emma Hacking

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I'm Emma and I am an online counsellor. I work with people on issues like:

Identity
Gender
Sexuality
Issues around kink/kinky/BDSM identities or practices
Relationship issues, including open relationships, consensual non-monogamy, relationship anarchy, and polyamory
Bereavement and grief
Depression
Anxiety
Isolation
Stress from systemic oppression and/or capitalism
Work-related issues
Major life changes
Making sense of and finding meaning in your life experiences
Integration of psychedelic experiences
Anxiety over politics or the political climate
Activist burnout
Worry over ecology, ecological collapse and the state of the environment
Fear, stress, trauma or anxiety around the pandemic, lockdowns and COVID-19
Meaning and purpose

I have been working with clients since 2020, starting out just as the pandemic started.

Like many counsellors, I came to the profession as a second career. Previously, I was a writer, filmmaker, corporate office worker, and activist. These are all experiences that I carry with me, inform my core beliefs, and so inform my work.

Sexual identity:

Bi- | Pansexual
Kink - BDSM
Queer

Gender identity: Non-binary

Gender history: Prefer not to say

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Yes

Personal pronouns: they/them

Qualifications - Links to websites:

My website is www.emmahacking.co.uk

I am Professional Accredited Member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (member number NCS22-01672).

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
Postgraduate Diploma in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Counselling	Pink Therapy	2022
Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling/Psychospiritual Counselling	CPCAB	2021
Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies	CPCAB	2019
Level 2 Award in Counselling Skills	AIM	2018

Experience and approach:

I believe that the personal is political (and vice versa), and that counselling can be a radical and political act if you want/need it to be.

My approach is integrative and tailored to each client's needs. I believe there is no authority but yourself, and that you are the expert in your own life’s experience. This is the place from which the therapeutic work begins - as Arthur Ashe puts it, “start where you are, use what you have, do what you can”.

Together, we can co-create a counselling space to meet your needs as they are now and as they change.

I have been working in private practice since 2021, and working with clients since 2020.

Approaches: