Emma Hacking

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I offer person-centred and existential counselling with an integrative, anti-oppressive approach.

I chose to train in person-centred counselling because 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 in person-centred counselling - as Arthur Ashe puts it, “start where you are, use what you have, do what you can”.

I believe that the personal is political (and vice versa), and that counselling can be a radical and political act if you want it to be. It is not a replacement for mutual aid, systemic change and community, but can help support you and nurture growth in a different way.

Sexual identity:

Kink - BDSM
Other
Queer

Gender identity: Non-binary

Gender history: Prefer not to say

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: Yes

Personal pronouns: They/them

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award
Certificate in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Counselling	Pink Therapy	2022
Level 4 Diploma in Psychospiritual Counselling	Sweet Track Counselling Centre	2021
Level 3 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling	Sweet Track Counselling Centre	2019

Experience and approach:

I have worked with clients for over five years.

My four years of training were through courses in Therapeutic Counselling run by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body, all fully accredited and approved by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society. My Diploma course was in Psychospiritual Counselling at Sweet Track Counselling in Glastonbury. I qualified in 2021 and became a full time counsellor that year.

After graduating, I enrolled post-graduate Certificate in Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Counselling from Pink Therapy, accredited by the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists. Currently, I’m working on the TADF Diploma course on Diversity, Cultural Competence, Race and Anti-discrimination.

I’m a Pink Therapist Advanced Accredited Therapist, an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (member number NCS22-01672), a member of the Radical Therapist Network, the Red Clinic, and the Psychotherapy and Counselling Union. Alongside my private practice, I work with clients at Bargee Traveller on a Mental Health Service for boaters and travellers. I am a professional member of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy. I teach modules on gender, sex, and relationship diversity at Sweet Track Counselling College, and I also offer group therapy sessions on psychedelic integration.

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