Emotionally Focused Counselling in Oxford
I'm a straightforward, kindly, fully qualified counsellor with 40 years experience of working with people facing serious difficulties and life challenges. I offer a service tailored to your specific needs, providing short or longer-term help as needed. I work with a range of problems including anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, depression, crisis, addictions, low self-esteem, abuse, disempowerment, anger management, bereavement, trauma, illness and loss of meaning. "It soon felt safe to talk. The sessions were expertly guided with valuable interventions and feedback." "I found you so empathic, calm and reassuring and my confidence built up through the sessions"
I'm a straightforward, kindly, fully qualified counsellor with 40 years experience of working with people facing serious difficulties and life challenges. I offer a service tailored to your specific needs, providing short or longer-term help as needed. I work with a range of problems including anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, depression, crisis, addictions, low self-esteem, abuse, disempowerment, anger management, bereavement, trauma, illness and loss of meaning. "It soon felt safe to talk. The sessions were expertly guided with valuable interventions and feedback." "I found you so empathic, calm and reassuring and my confidence built up through the sessions"
I utilise a blend of positive psychotherapeutic enquiry and solution focussed approaches, to identify and reframe the cause of limiting beliefs and behaviours. I tailor my approach and work with individuals and couples. Whether you need to overcome a traumatic experience, difficulties in relationships, self esteem, anxiety or coaching to provide skills to transition through life, manage a situation or perform at your best. Building an independent, safe and trusting environment for you to explore issues and challenges in life: both work and/or personal is important for me.
I utilise a blend of positive psychotherapeutic enquiry and solution focussed approaches, to identify and reframe the cause of limiting beliefs and behaviours. I tailor my approach and work with individuals and couples. Whether you need to overcome a traumatic experience, difficulties in relationships, self esteem, anxiety or coaching to provide skills to transition through life, manage a situation or perform at your best. Building an independent, safe and trusting environment for you to explore issues and challenges in life: both work and/or personal is important for me.
I offer compassionate Online Blended Psychological Care for Chronic Health conditions, leading to long-standing behavioural changes.
Living with a chronic health condition you never chose can feel exhausting—pain, uncertainty, disruptions from your daily routine, and moments of “Will life ever feel normal again?” You don’t have to navigate this alone. Through private sessions and gentle daily supportive nudges, we’ll explore your experiences, emotions, and patterns, and build practical strategies for coping and thriving. Step by step, we’ll rebuild a life that no longer serves you into a more balanced, meaningful, and truly yours.
I offer compassionate Online Blended Psychological Care for Chronic Health conditions, leading to long-standing behavioural changes.
Living with a chronic health condition you never chose can feel exhausting—pain, uncertainty, disruptions from your daily routine, and moments of “Will life ever feel normal again?” You don’t have to navigate this alone. Through private sessions and gentle daily supportive nudges, we’ll explore your experiences, emotions, and patterns, and build practical strategies for coping and thriving. Step by step, we’ll rebuild a life that no longer serves you into a more balanced, meaningful, and truly yours.
My name is Emily and I am a therapist working in Oxford. I work with adult individuals seeking counselling for a wide variety of issues. I aim to offer a welcoming, confidential and professional space in which you feel safe to explore any psychological and emotional problems you are experiencing. I hold counselling sessions online via Zoom, so no matter where you are based, you can access counselling from the comfort of your own home. I work with adults of all ages, cultural backgrounds and sexualities who are facing a broad range of challenges.
My name is Emily and I am a therapist working in Oxford. I work with adult individuals seeking counselling for a wide variety of issues. I aim to offer a welcoming, confidential and professional space in which you feel safe to explore any psychological and emotional problems you are experiencing. I hold counselling sessions online via Zoom, so no matter where you are based, you can access counselling from the comfort of your own home. I work with adults of all ages, cultural backgrounds and sexualities who are facing a broad range of challenges.
I provide focused therapy that will help you to see your patterns and emotions as well as moral and ethical challenges arising from interpersonal and social contexts better, to then allow you to change them. Obstacles to change are very subtle, often almost invisible. Self-awareness can redirect your energies to creating more positive states of mind. We will work on how ethical and moral dilemmas arise between people, how this interacts with different life experiences that impact your personality and how that then affects your psychological well being.
I provide focused therapy that will help you to see your patterns and emotions as well as moral and ethical challenges arising from interpersonal and social contexts better, to then allow you to change them. Obstacles to change are very subtle, often almost invisible. Self-awareness can redirect your energies to creating more positive states of mind. We will work on how ethical and moral dilemmas arise between people, how this interacts with different life experiences that impact your personality and how that then affects your psychological well being.
As a fully qualified and accredited Systemic Couple and Family Psychotherapist (MA), with 25 years clinical experience, both within the NHS and via my own independent practice, I offer online individual, couple & family therapy, & clinical supervision. I work in an affirming, non-judgemental way with clients across gender, sexuality and relationship diversity, and welcome couples and families of all kinds. Whether you share a bed or live on different continents, my practice is dedicated to helping people connect, communicate, and rediscover intimacy and closeness with the people who matter most.
As a fully qualified and accredited Systemic Couple and Family Psychotherapist (MA), with 25 years clinical experience, both within the NHS and via my own independent practice, I offer online individual, couple & family therapy, & clinical supervision. I work in an affirming, non-judgemental way with clients across gender, sexuality and relationship diversity, and welcome couples and families of all kinds. Whether you share a bed or live on different continents, my practice is dedicated to helping people connect, communicate, and rediscover intimacy and closeness with the people who matter most.
For Couples, I follow the Emotionally Focussed Couples model ( EFT).
Reviewers and seekers like yourself might be uncertain about what therapy is. You might imagine it's like going to see the doctor to get a plan to be fixed or you may imagine Therapy to be more like a craft/art/magic. Or something else. I don't have fixed ideas about what you bring, how you bring it and what sort of person you might be. I'm not sure what you want, but i'm interested to start exploring it together with you. You may not know what you want and thats ok too. It is ok to reach out from a position of not knowing and uncertainty. Sitting a room together will give you a lot of information.
For Couples, I follow the Emotionally Focussed Couples model ( EFT).
Reviewers and seekers like yourself might be uncertain about what therapy is. You might imagine it's like going to see the doctor to get a plan to be fixed or you may imagine Therapy to be more like a craft/art/magic. Or something else. I don't have fixed ideas about what you bring, how you bring it and what sort of person you might be. I'm not sure what you want, but i'm interested to start exploring it together with you. You may not know what you want and thats ok too. It is ok to reach out from a position of not knowing and uncertainty. Sitting a room together will give you a lot of information.
Hello I'm Carole. Finding the right therapist can be a difficult decision, especially if you are having a stressful time. Finding out about the therapist and the therapeutic process can be useful and can enable you to find the right therapist for you. I work with a wide range of people and life issues including: feeling stuck, life transitions, depression, anxiety, bereavement, work-related stress, relationship difficulties, personality disorders, trauma, addictions and many others. Call me and we can have a short chat to discuss what you are looking for and how I am able to help you.
Hello I'm Carole. Finding the right therapist can be a difficult decision, especially if you are having a stressful time. Finding out about the therapist and the therapeutic process can be useful and can enable you to find the right therapist for you. I work with a wide range of people and life issues including: feeling stuck, life transitions, depression, anxiety, bereavement, work-related stress, relationship difficulties, personality disorders, trauma, addictions and many others. Call me and we can have a short chat to discuss what you are looking for and how I am able to help you.
Dr Judith Zur is a highly specialist clinical psychologist and Marital/Family therapist and Social Anthropologist with over thirty years’ experience of providing psychological and counselling interventions, consultation and supervision in the NHS and non-statutory settings in the UK and abroad. She is a caring and professional person experienced working successfully with individuals of all ages, couples and families on a wide range of issues both in her private consultation room and online. Judith´s therapeutic approach is non-judgemental, collaborative, empathic and person/couple-centred.
Dr Judith Zur is a highly specialist clinical psychologist and Marital/Family therapist and Social Anthropologist with over thirty years’ experience of providing psychological and counselling interventions, consultation and supervision in the NHS and non-statutory settings in the UK and abroad. She is a caring and professional person experienced working successfully with individuals of all ages, couples and families on a wide range of issues both in her private consultation room and online. Judith´s therapeutic approach is non-judgemental, collaborative, empathic and person/couple-centred.
I am also trained in EFT (emotionally focussed couples therapy) and currently have a waiting list for couples looking for therapy.
I have worked in acute mental health, in child and adolescent mental health services, within palliative care and bereavement, and within learning disability and autism services. I work with people of all ages who are undergoing or have undergone distress and trauma, as well as with people wishing to explore difficulties within their relationships.
I am also trained in EFT (emotionally focussed couples therapy) and currently have a waiting list for couples looking for therapy.
I have worked in acute mental health, in child and adolescent mental health services, within palliative care and bereavement, and within learning disability and autism services. I work with people of all ages who are undergoing or have undergone distress and trauma, as well as with people wishing to explore difficulties within their relationships.
Maybe you've spent years feeling like you had to be someone else—constantly trying to meet the expectations of others. Whether it’s unresolved trauma, attachment wounds, or the weight of anxiety and depression, it can leave you feeling disconnected from your true self. You might find yourself stuck in people-pleasing, overworking, masking, or repressing your emotions. Coping can turn into unhealthy patterns like self-harming, developing addictions, OCD, or eating disorders. Together, we can unravel those patterns, understand how your past is shaping your present, and help you develop what you need to feel good in your own skin.
Maybe you've spent years feeling like you had to be someone else—constantly trying to meet the expectations of others. Whether it’s unresolved trauma, attachment wounds, or the weight of anxiety and depression, it can leave you feeling disconnected from your true self. You might find yourself stuck in people-pleasing, overworking, masking, or repressing your emotions. Coping can turn into unhealthy patterns like self-harming, developing addictions, OCD, or eating disorders. Together, we can unravel those patterns, understand how your past is shaping your present, and help you develop what you need to feel good in your own skin.
I offer a caring and non-judgmental relationship in which you can explore the issues, experiences, thoughts and feelings that have brought you to seek help. We will explore the situations and challenges you are facing in your life. Speaking about what is difficult is the beginning of feeling better. Core Process Psychotherapy combines the wisdom and compassion of Buddhism with western approaches to psychology. This compassionate and relational approach emphasises our wholeness, and our inherent resilience and balance - however hidden these qualities may sometimes seem. I work with both individuals and couples.
I offer a caring and non-judgmental relationship in which you can explore the issues, experiences, thoughts and feelings that have brought you to seek help. We will explore the situations and challenges you are facing in your life. Speaking about what is difficult is the beginning of feeling better. Core Process Psychotherapy combines the wisdom and compassion of Buddhism with western approaches to psychology. This compassionate and relational approach emphasises our wholeness, and our inherent resilience and balance - however hidden these qualities may sometimes seem. I work with both individuals and couples.
I work with 1-1 clients and couples / multiple partner clients. I'm also trained by Metanoia Institute for 1-1 work and CICS (contemporary institute of clinical sexology) in intimate partnered therapy to work with couples + multiple partnered people
Reasons to seek out therapy are, much like ourselves, varied, nuanced and complex. A deeply empathic, attentive presence and trust for how you process things and what you decide to bring to therapy are at the heart of my practice.
My work is therefore centred around attending to the whole person, with equal respect and worth for both content and process, both feeling and thinking.
I work with 1-1 clients and couples / multiple partner clients. I'm also trained by Metanoia Institute for 1-1 work and CICS (contemporary institute of clinical sexology) in intimate partnered therapy to work with couples + multiple partnered people
Reasons to seek out therapy are, much like ourselves, varied, nuanced and complex. A deeply empathic, attentive presence and trust for how you process things and what you decide to bring to therapy are at the heart of my practice.
My work is therefore centred around attending to the whole person, with equal respect and worth for both content and process, both feeling and thinking.
Loss, Trauma and Grief Therapy Specialist.
We’ll identify how your loss or trauma affects you personally, within your family, and at work. Because grief and relationships are complex, we’ll explore family dynamics, wider social influences as well as your inner world. Using my holistic framework, I’ll design a personalized plan with strategies for you to gain new insights to feel better, strengthen relationships, and help you move forward. I can offer tools for you to practice strategies in-between sessions. Clients say my perceptive skills allow me to work quickly and deeply, bringing clarity and relief to your suffering.
Loss, Trauma and Grief Therapy Specialist.
We’ll identify how your loss or trauma affects you personally, within your family, and at work. Because grief and relationships are complex, we’ll explore family dynamics, wider social influences as well as your inner world. Using my holistic framework, I’ll design a personalized plan with strategies for you to gain new insights to feel better, strengthen relationships, and help you move forward. I can offer tools for you to practice strategies in-between sessions. Clients say my perceptive skills allow me to work quickly and deeply, bringing clarity and relief to your suffering.
Hello I'm Ali .
We can at times , find ourselves needing the opportunity to share what we are thinking and feeling and wanting someone to listen to us and truly hear what we are saying .
In sessions my aim is to offer a safe , non-judgemental , confidential space , my full attention and support for you to be truly heard. I offer warmth and honesty so that we can work together and build a trusting therapeutic relationship.
Hello I'm Ali .
We can at times , find ourselves needing the opportunity to share what we are thinking and feeling and wanting someone to listen to us and truly hear what we are saying .
In sessions my aim is to offer a safe , non-judgemental , confidential space , my full attention and support for you to be truly heard. I offer warmth and honesty so that we can work together and build a trusting therapeutic relationship.
Are things in your life feeling overwhelming? Perhaps you have a niggling sense of unease you can’t ignore. Whatever has brought you here, you are welcome. I’m Laura, a BACP-registered therapist offering online or phone sessions in the UK and beyond. I draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Person Centred Therapy, bringing them together to create a warm and supportive space. In our sessions, we’ll explore the different parts of you (the parts that protect, carry pain, or hold strong emotions) and connect to what feels most alive for you right now.
Are things in your life feeling overwhelming? Perhaps you have a niggling sense of unease you can’t ignore. Whatever has brought you here, you are welcome. I’m Laura, a BACP-registered therapist offering online or phone sessions in the UK and beyond. I draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Person Centred Therapy, bringing them together to create a warm and supportive space. In our sessions, we’ll explore the different parts of you (the parts that protect, carry pain, or hold strong emotions) and connect to what feels most alive for you right now.
Are you finding your marriage or relationship to be really hard right now? Is it full of tension, disappointment or heartache? Perhaps you are arguing more and you just don't look forward to spending time with your partner anymore. Do you wish you could feel the way you felt about them when you first decided to make a commitment to each other? I'm guessing you want to feel seen and heard, like you matter and like your thoughts and feelings matter, too. You don't just want to be going through the motions of being close, but want something that feels special and secure.
Are you finding your marriage or relationship to be really hard right now? Is it full of tension, disappointment or heartache? Perhaps you are arguing more and you just don't look forward to spending time with your partner anymore. Do you wish you could feel the way you felt about them when you first decided to make a commitment to each other? I'm guessing you want to feel seen and heard, like you matter and like your thoughts and feelings matter, too. You don't just want to be going through the motions of being close, but want something that feels special and secure.
I’m a Relationship, Individual, and Psychosexual Therapist, and I help you improve your relationships & live. I believe everyone—whether they’re in a relationship or not—deserves to feel happy and fulfilled. In my work, I’ve seen that many relationship problems stem from poor communication and a lack of understanding of ourselves and each other. My goal is to help you find balance in your life, your relationships, and your intimate world. Don't Let Your Idea Of A Great Relationship Be Just A Dream, Let Me Help You To Make It Your Reality!
I’m a Relationship, Individual, and Psychosexual Therapist, and I help you improve your relationships & live. I believe everyone—whether they’re in a relationship or not—deserves to feel happy and fulfilled. In my work, I’ve seen that many relationship problems stem from poor communication and a lack of understanding of ourselves and each other. My goal is to help you find balance in your life, your relationships, and your intimate world. Don't Let Your Idea Of A Great Relationship Be Just A Dream, Let Me Help You To Make It Your Reality!
Hello I am Sam (MBACP, NCPS Acc)
I see Couples, Individuals, and Young People (age 11+).
I specialise in Relationships, Psychosexual Issues, and GSRD/LGBTQIA+.
I deal with Trauma, PTSD, & offer EMDR therapy.
Therapy can be either Face-to-Face, Online, or by Telephone.
I am a qualified Level 4 Psychotherapeutic Counsellor & a Level 5 Therapist trained to work with Young People age 11+. Fully trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) for Trauma & PTSD. Trained in PRT (Psychosexual & Relationship Therapy)
Hello I am Sam (MBACP, NCPS Acc)
I see Couples, Individuals, and Young People (age 11+).
I specialise in Relationships, Psychosexual Issues, and GSRD/LGBTQIA+.
I deal with Trauma, PTSD, & offer EMDR therapy.
Therapy can be either Face-to-Face, Online, or by Telephone.
I am a qualified Level 4 Psychotherapeutic Counsellor & a Level 5 Therapist trained to work with Young People age 11+. Fully trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) for Trauma & PTSD. Trained in PRT (Psychosexual & Relationship Therapy)
As a NCPS Registered accredited counsellor/psychotherapist, and supervisor. I am passionate about empowering individuals to overcome challenges and live fulfilling lives.
I have worked with a wide range of issues and people and I am passionate about working with the neurodiverse whether diagnosed or self diagnosed, LGBTQIA& and non monogamous. I strive to create a safe space for those who haven't found that elsewhere.
As a NCPS Registered accredited counsellor/psychotherapist, and supervisor. I am passionate about empowering individuals to overcome challenges and live fulfilling lives.
I have worked with a wide range of issues and people and I am passionate about working with the neurodiverse whether diagnosed or self diagnosed, LGBTQIA& and non monogamous. I strive to create a safe space for those who haven't found that elsewhere.
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Who is emotionally focused therapy for?
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is for couples who are emotionally distressed, stuck in an unsatisfying relationship pattern or feeling deeply alienated. They may even believe the relationship is beyond repair. Very often, the partners display intense anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal in the relationship. In addition, EFT is helpful to couples and individuals who have difficulty expressing emotions and those who have trouble regulating emotions.
Why do people need emotionally focused therapy?
People need emotionally focused therapy because the need for others is built into the brain, but the pressures of daily life can erode feelings of love, and couples often do not have the skills to find their way back to the comfort of each other. Instead, they may be stuck in repetitive patterns of anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal. Emotionally focused therapy regards such strong negative feelings as expressions of protest over the loss of connection and turns them into pathways of reconnection.
What happens in emotionally focused therapy?
Over the course of eight to 20 weekly sessions, couples de-escalate their negative emotional reactivity to one another so that they can listen to each other and be responsive to each other’s needs. Then the deep emotional and physical bond is restored, giving partners a sense of comfort and security, which they can use to solve whatever problems come their way. The therapist plays an active role, helping partners understand how anger and withdrawal are actually misguided cries for connection.
What problems does emotionally focused therapy treat?
EFT is designed to help couples stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns regain closeness and rebuild their relationship. Typically, such couples experience considerable distress, with partners feeling alienated and distrustful of one another, not certain their relationship can survive. EFT is also helpful to individuals experiencing attachment-related fears of loss; it helps them learn to use their fears as a way of eliciting the closeness they desire.