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Em’s Therapy Space

Private Counselling for adults, teens and couples. Based in a peaceful garden room in Wilmslow.

13/11/2025

It’s World Kindness Day! 🩵🩵
Yes, the world can be harsh - we hear it day in, day out. But there are glimmers if you actually look for them… the small moments, the decent people, the humanity that get buried under all the negative noise.
We get to choose whether we add to the chaos or the kindness. Today feels like a good day to pick the latter. 🩵

11/11/2025

It’s Anti-Bullying awareness week.

Some bullying can hide in plain sight within friendship groups. It hides in ’banter,’
in group chats, in always being the butt of the jokes.

From the outside, it looks pretty harmless. Just friends messing around. However, if you’re the ‘joke’, the one laughing along because you feel you have no choice, the one walking away feeling smaller than when you arrived… That’s not friendship, it’s you shrinking to stay included and you shouldn’t have to do that.

This is the kind of bullying often doesn’t get called out - because if you do it risks being told you’re too sensitive, dramatic, or can’t take a joke. But if it hurts, it matters, if you feel it in your stomach afterwards, it matters and if you’re carrying it around in your head later that night, it matters.

The behaviour itself is not always done with awareness that it’s even bullying or intent to really hurt. It’s often to do with creating a social hierarchy and the need to stay ‘on top’ or in control. The result however is the same, and someone ends up hurt.

Calling it out takes a lot of bravery, but it needs to be done. If you recognise this within your own groups, call it out. If it’s happening to you, speak to someone about it. You don’t deserve this and it needs to stop. 🩵

08/11/2025

It’s not just girls who feel pressure. Boys have it too.

Be confident, but not too confident.
Be laid back, but not boring.
Be good at sport, all sport ideally.
Look good, but pretend you didn’t try.
Care about things, but act like you don’t.

It’s like a constant checklist that contradicts itself and is actually impossible to achieve.
You end up with boys trying to tick boxes that don’t even make sense.
Or feeling like whatever they do is slightly wrong.
Or like everyone else has already figured it out.

They’re all still working out who they are, which is exactly how it should be at this age.

They’re not meant to have everything nailed and shouldn’t be under this much pressure.
It’s too much for anyone, let alone kids. 🩵

05/11/2025

Some men are drowning and still showing up to work. Still joking. Still carrying everyone else’s s**t as well as their own.
Because somewhere along the line they learned: Don’t crack. Don’t show it. Don’t be a problem.

So they say “I’m good.”
They might get quieter, more tired, more closed off. But, everyone assumes they must be fine because they’re still functioning.

Functioning isn’t the same as coping and not opening up doesn’t mean nothing’s wrong.
It just means they don’t feel like there’s space for the truth. Or it’s too hard, too much.

So, we need to learn to start checking in, properly.
Not ‘How’s things?’
More like ‘How are you, really?’
Then being quiet and letting them answer. Probing beneath the surface, even if it feels a bit uncomfortable.

If you are the one who is carrying too much,
you don’t have to white-knuckle your way through life. There is help out there. People really do care.
Talking isn’t dramatic.
It can actually be survival.

🖤

02/11/2025

If your body could text you, what would it say? 💬

We spend so much time in our heads that we stop noticing what our bodies are trying to tell us; the tight shoulders, the clenched jaw, the tension, the tiredness, the tight chest.
They’re not random, they are messages.

If you start listening instead of just pushing through and cracking on, you might start to realise your body isn’t working against you, it’s actually trying to help you.🩵

connection

31/10/2025

Not the usual content… but for some reason my business emails are currently all landing in junk (as in the ones I send) which means clients/prospective clients assume I’m not responding.😟 If you are a client, please use my number or DM me on here rather than email currently. Any new/prospective clients PLEASE add your number to your initial message (I can receive the contact form/email) and I’ll contact you back on WhatsApp or text. Thank you. 🙏🩵

30/10/2025

Avoidance feels like the easiest option when anxiety hits.
You cancel, delay or distract yourself, and for a little while, it helps. The tension eases and you can breathe again. Dealt with. Or not….

Not, because it doesn’t last. Every time we avoid, the brain learns that we can’t handle the thing we’re worried about. So the fear gets stronger next time.

You don’t have to force yourself to face everything at once. The aim is to take small, steady steps that start to show your brain that you can cope.
This is how to begin to break the anxiety cycle.

29/10/2025

The mirror in therapy isn’t glass.
It’s the conversation itself… it’s what gets reflected back through words, pauses, and moments of honesty.

You might begin to see yourself slightly differently. Not the version that’s been on autopilot, but the one that’s actually underneath it all. This is about really seeing yourself and working out what feels right to heal, change, or move towards next.

24/10/2025

Don’t feel like seeing anyone? That’s okay.
You don’t owe anyone your energy just because it’s Friday night.
Sometimes the best plans are no plans. 🙌🤍

22/10/2025

The s**tty committee is the perfect label for that harsh inner voice that loves to tear you down (nicked from Julia Samuel).
It’s loud, convincing and usually wrong.
You don’t have to believe everything you think.

21/10/2025

I genuinely love what I do, and this little room holds a lot of stories.
My hope is that anyone who sits here feels calm, understood, and able to just be themselves.
I believe that’s what therapy should feel like; real, safe, and somewhere you don’t have to hold it all together or put a front on. 🩵

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Wilmslow

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http://www.emstherapyspace.co.uk/

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