About me

Meet Emma Harris, psychotherapist (she/her)

I’m a BACP-accredited psychotherapist (membership number 00947550), with a core training in integrative therapy. I am trained in Internal Family Systems to Level 3 with the IFS Institute, I’m an EMDR practitioner and a clinical supervisor.

I am based in Bridport, Dorset, and work online with adults around the UK.  

Professional credentials

I continually develop my skills and deepen my practice through training, workshops and collaboration with peers. I also support IFS training courses in the UK and online.

Alongside formal learning, I’m an active participant in a number of professional and lived-experience communities, including neurodivergent, queer and childless communities. I am also a part of the thriving and socially-engaged community of IFS therapists and practitioners.

I work in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework (updated 2026). I hold professional insurance with Holistic Insurance, an Enhanced DBS and registration with the Information Commissioner’s Office. I maintain my knowledge of data handling and confidentiality (UK GDPR), safeguarding and ethical practice in order to maintain high professional standards in my practice management.

I have regular clinical supervision and my own personal therapy.

Professional credentials

I work with people whose lives haven’t followed the expected script, who’ve spent a long time adapting themselves to fit somewhere they don’t quite belong, and who have decided that isn’t working for them any more. It may be that something has happened – a loss or sudden change which they are grieving or processing, involuntary childlessness, perimenopause, a diagnosis, burnout. Or it may be that they are feeling anxious, depressed, exhausted, angry or lost and don’t really know why. Trauma runs through a lot of my work too, whatever the starting point.

I work intuitively and creatively. I don’t believe that people need to be fixed, or that we can think our way out of something difficult. More often, the way out is through: by turning towards what’s hard, gently, once there is enough of a sense of safety. My clients bring the lived knowledge of their own experience; I bring my skills and training, compassion and attunement.

There’s room here for lightness as well as depth. Laughter has its place in the therapy room too.

I’m an integrative therapist with IFS at the centre of how I work, and EMDR alongside, drawing on person-centred therapy, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and CBT where they’re useful, rather than fitting clients into one fixed method.

Self-compassion is a foundation stone of my work, as is a sense of interconnectedness with the natural world. I may offer psychoeducation along the way – a theory of how the brain works, an attachment pattern, a trauma response – and I draw on mindfulness practices to support new ways of experiencing ourselves and our surroundings.

Inclusivity & anti-oppression

I hold an anti-oppressive, justice-informed stance, and am always trying to learn and do better. I’m aware of my own privilege, and of the systemic patterns that shape whose experience gets taken seriously and whose doesn’t. I don’t treat diverse identities, communication needs or ways of experiencing the world as a problem, and I don’t treat trauma responses as evidence of a pathology or mental health disorder.

I will ask what ways of communicating and therapeutic techniques feel most comfortable for you. I will check regularly that you feel safe and will take time to reflect on how you are experiencing therapy.

My approach is consent-led, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive and neurodivergence-affirming. That includes working with people of all genders, including trans and non-binary folk.

If you’d rather work with someone who more closely shares a specific aspect of your lived experience, I’d be glad to help you find them.

A bit more about me

My garden is a sanctuary for me – even when it’s hard work! I go there to reground myself and to process things. You’ll find me there before work, after work, between client sessions, before bed. I grow veg, fruit and flowers and take delight in the life contained in that little plot of land. My garden teaches me about balance, humility and trust.

I share my home with Wendell, a three-legged cat who has become an unofficial part of the therapy ecosystem here: he curls up nearby whilst I’m with clients – often on my lap, or theirs (subject to consent!)

Get in touch

Whether you’re looking for therapy, or you’re a therapist yourself interested in supervision, consultation or integrating IFS into your practice, I’d love to hear from you.