About
Having completed her masters in drama therapy at Roehampton University in 2016, Emma brings a broad 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, whilst taking a proactive and integrative approach to collaborative mental health care.
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 health care.
Position at Priory
Emma joined the Priory in 2025 as the CAMHS therapy lead.
Training
- DBT-A- dialectical behavioural therapy for adolescents, level 2 practitioner (association for psychological therapies)
- ADOS 2- autism diagnostic observation schedule, AS directions
- Low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy with children and young people CPD (University of Sussex)
- Designated safeguarding lead
- Advanced child protection
Gender identity champion (TransAction Charity) - Trainings 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)
- NVR (Non-violent resistance) NHS