Em’s Therapy Space

Em’s Therapy Space Private Counselling for adults, teens and couples. Based in a peaceful garden room in Wilmslow.

A little Christmas reminder for everyone.It’s natural to want the people around you to have a good time, just don’t make...
16/12/2025

A little Christmas reminder for everyone.

It’s natural to want the people around you to have a good time, just don’t make yourself the thing that gets sacrificed.

Do a bit less, drop a few expectations, and leave some breathing room…plan in a long bath, a lie in, a walk.

Eat the cheese, drink the wine and get some fresh air when you can because it really does help! 🩵

You don’t need to run yourself into the ground for it to be a good Christmas, and ideally you want to head into the new year feeling more fabulous than frazzled!

🎄❤️Christmas can come with a lot of noise and feel like lot of pressure.Ideas of what it should look like, what everyone...
11/12/2025

🎄❤️Christmas can come with a lot of noise and feel like lot of pressure.
Ideas of what it should look like, what everyone else is doing and what you think you’re meant to keep up with.

Really truly, most of it isn’t needed.

The bits your family actually remember are usually the simple things… not the polished, perfect, over-the-top ones.

So pick the things that feel good for you and skip the things that don’t.
It doesn’t have to be a month long all singing all dancing production, it just has to feel like your family’s Christmas. 🎄❤️

Grief doesn’t come with a rulebook. There’s no guide, no roadmap and definitely no shortcut through the tough parts. It ...
03/12/2025

Grief doesn’t come with a rulebook. There’s no guide, no roadmap and definitely no shortcut through the tough parts. It comes into your life and changes things, sometimes in ways you only make sense of much later… and sometimes in ways you wish you didn’t have to face at all.

What makes it harder is the quiet pressure that you’re supposed to be ‘over it’ by a certain point. Most of the time that pressure is about other people - feeling awkward, unsure what to say, or hoping things can go back to how they were. Grief does not follow other people’s timelines. It’s not linear and it’s not tidy.

It can be exhausting in ways you don’t always have language for, and learning to live alongside it takes time, space and support. Counselling can sometimes help, not to erase the grief, but to support you so you don’t feel like you’re doing it alone.
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December can be a weird one.Some people are straight into the Christmas spirit.🎄🥳Others are just trying to get through t...
03/12/2025

December can be a weird one.
Some people are straight into the Christmas spirit.🎄🥳
Others are just trying to get through the month without feeling completely wrung out.

There’s no ‘right’ way to do this time of year. Not everyone feels festive, not everyone has the cosy family scenes. Loads of people are carrying things than don’t disappear just because the fairy lights are up, sometimes they actually feel harder.

Don’t let the month drown you, keep it as small and as doable as you need. 🩵

🩵We could all try to be the most likeable person in the room and someone will still decide we’re not their cup of tea. T...
22/11/2025

🩵We could all try to be the most likeable person in the room and someone will still decide we’re not their cup of tea. That’s just how it is.
🩵You’re not meant to fit perfectly with everyone… you only need your people, not all the people.
🩵Be the version of you that actually feels like you. The one that exists when you’re not second-guessing yourself or worrying about what fits with the crowd. The you who shows up on normal days, in real moments, without rehearsing every line in your head. That’s the one that matters and the one worth backing.
🩵Some people will get you. Some won’t.
Their opinion isn’t your prison.

🩵If you’ve lost track of what feels like the real you, counselling can help you with working it out.

🩵🩵🩵Better to feel free in your own skin than trapped in someone else’s idea of who you should be.

It’s World Kindness Day! 🩵🩵Yes, the world can be harsh - we hear it day in, day out. But there are glimmers if you actua...
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. 🩵

It’s Anti-Bullying awareness week.Some bullying can hide in plain sight within friendship groups. It hides in ’banter,’i...
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. 🩵

It’s not just girls who feel pressure. Boys have it too.Be confident, but not too confident.Be laid back, but not boring...
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. 🩵

Some men are drowning and still showing up to work. Still joking. Still carrying everyone else’s s**t as well as their o...
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.

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