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Updated 11/11/2025
Emma Smith - Registered Counsellor
Emma Smith
Registered Counsellor
Onsite 11 years
Rated 4.8 out of 5 based on 9 reviews
In person & Remote therapy, The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking, RH4 1EJ
In person & Remote therapy, The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking, RH4 1EJ
Contact Me
Emma Smith - Registered Counsellor
Emma Smith
Registered Counsellor
Contact Me
Emma is the best counsellor in Dorking based on Emma's client-therapist relationships and verified client reviews.

What to Expect

Try one session, to see if you feel comfortable with Emma, and decide if therapy may help you.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT focuses on how your thoughts (cognitions) affect your feelings and actions. It recognises and challenges negative thoughts that perpetuate the problems you experience. The objective of cognitive behavioural therapy is for you to experience healthier thoughts and emotions.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) suggests CBT for:
  • Depression
  • Generalised Anxiety
  • OCD
  • Self Harm
  • Social Anxiety

Counselling

Counselling centres on listening to you, and assisting you. You determine which issue regarding your early years and/or adulthood you discuss. An objective of counselling is to enable you to speak about a difficulty and discover a way forward which is appropriate for you.

NICE suggests counselling for:
  • Depression

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy focuses on you, and you obtaining insight into the difficulties you face. It considers your thoughts, emotions and relevant moments in your life. Psychotherapy aims to help you change or discover appropriate ways of managing.


Therapy

  • Abuse
  • Anger
  • Bereavement
  • Narcissistic Personality
  • Relationship Problems
  • Self Esteem
  • Stress

Languages

  • English

Qualifications

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Registered Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Last Check 11/11/2025 | Next Review 11/12/2025
December
2017
Certificate
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Grove (UK)
Verified 13/12/2017
September
2012
Degree
Counselling
University of Greenwich (UK)
Verified 19/11/2014
August
2011
Degree
Counselling
Guildford College (UK)
Verified 03/05/2017

Emma Smith is bound by the Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).


Fees

Individual £60 Couple £85

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Reviews

Summary

Rated 4.8out of 5

Based on 120 reviews

Easy to talk to: 4.8
Helpfulness: 4.9
Value for money: 4.8



5.0
Review of Therapy for Relationship Problems
07 November 2019
Easy to talk to: 5
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 5
Understanding, fair, patient, perceptive.

Anonymous, 41Reply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Counselling for Self Esteem
17 August 2018
Easy to talk to: 5
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 5
Therapy is only effective if you feel empowered to bare your soul to your therapist. Emma put me at ease immediately, empowering me to be completely honest. Emma is thoughtful and perceptive. She goes to great lengths to understand the context of an issue, asking thoughtful questions in the process, rather than leaping to generic remedies. Therapy is not a silver bullet. At best it can open your eyes to an alternative way of thinking about your issues and negative thoughts. Emma is brilliantly qualified to help you do that. I'd recommend her to anyone.

Henry, 30Reply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Therapy for Relationship Problems
11 December 2017
Easy to talk to: 4
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 5
Very open and uses a structured approach to her work.

Anonymous from GuildfordReply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Counselling for Relationship Problems
01 August 2017
Easy to talk to: 5
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 4
Very good listener and gives a calm reassuring manner.

Anonymous, 62Reply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression
11 June 2017
Easy to talk to: 5
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 5
After 5 sessions with Emma I decided that the time was right for me to move on and to focus on looking forward. Prior to meeting Emma I had been affected by a significant family trauma that I had been trying to cope with by myself. After 6 months it became clear to me that I needed help and so I reached out to Emma. Easy to engage with, Emma really helped me over the weeks that I saw her and I'm sure without her support, guidance and gentle challenges that I wouldn't have moved forward in such a positive way. Through both the session work and areas she gave me to think about in the week I have slowly re-pieced my life together and challenged some of the ways I managed things. I feel good about myself and life and feel lighter and more positive than I have for a long time. Emma has been positive, gently challenging and empathetic. She has not judged but had understood the seriousness of what had happened in my life. She is flexible and warm and I would thoroughly recommend her skills to anyone needing to reach out for help.

Sarah, 50Reply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Counselling for Stress
08 May 2017
Easy to talk to: 5
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 5
Emma helped me to go through a very traumatic experience step by step and understand the situation and my feelings, and see things from a different, more positive angle. She was a good listener, very professional in her approach and compassionate in the moments of desperation. As a patient I found it was easy to trust her and share my thoughts and feelings.

Anonymous, 40Reply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Counselling for Relationship Problems
23 February 2017
Easy to talk to: 4
Helpfulness: 4
Value for money: 4
Emma is a very professional therapist and greatly helped our relationship communication issues.

Anonymous, 60 from GuildfordReply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Counselling for Depression
02 June 2016
Easy to talk to: 5
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 5
When I first contacted Emma I was very low. Over the course of our sessions Emma guided me to a point where I was comfortable to face feelings I had pushed aside and not dealt with. I felt very comfortable talking to Emma and felt I could say things I could not say to friends and family. Emma is a great listener, not judgmental and approaches difficult subjects professionally but kindly and openly and was very aware of my well being. I can honestly say I feel better now than I have done for a very long time. My anxiety is no longer limiting me, I sleep better and do not wake up with panic attacks. I no longer dwell and have reduced negative thought patterns. At times when I needed extra support Emma saw me and supported me. I am in a much better place as a direct result of my sessions with Emma.

Anonymous, 30 from GuildfordReply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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5.0
Review of Counselling for Anger
29 July 2015
Easy to talk to: 5
Helpfulness: 5
Value for money: 5
Excellent. Very easy to talk to and really helped me achieve my goals in therapy. I would highly recommend her.

Anonymous, 26 from GuildfordReply Pending Check
Emma's reply
05 December 2025

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