About
Having completed her Masters in Drama Therapy at Roehampton University in 2016, Emma brings a breadth of clinical experience, excellent people skills, sensitive and competent line management and sound clinical decision-making.
Across her career, she has worked in a variety of settings, including education, charity, inpatient and frontline NHS community clinics.
Her work has focused primarily on working with children and young people’s mental health and the families and systemic practice around them. Emma feels truly passionate about working with young people and organising robust support around them, while taking a proactive and integrative approach to collaborative mental healthcare. Her background in creative psychotherapy allows Emma to use an adaptive approach to therapy, and she is passionate about providing tailored and inclusive therapy, particularly for young people who are neurodivergent.
Emma strives to build rapport, trust and connection with every person she works with and believes openness, warmth and transparency is at the centre of good healthcare.
Position at Priory
Emma joined Priory Hospital Ticehurst House in Spring 2025 as the child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) therapy lead. Alongside management of the therapy team and referrals, Emma holds a caseload of her own and this includes children, adolescents and adult clients.
Training
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A), Level 2 practitioner - Association for Psychological Therapies (APT)
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS 2) - AS Directions
Low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with children and young people, continuous professional development (CPD) - University of Sussex
Designated safeguarding lead
Advanced child protection
Gender identity champion - TransAction Charity
Training in criminal exploitation, gangs, clinical harm and risk - NHS
Review, assessment and multi-disciplinary formulation - NHS
Mental health triage - NHS
Risk assessment - NHS
Trauma and bereavement - Grief Encounter, children's bereavement charity
- Non-violent resistance (NVR) - NHS