Emma Litman

Counsellor

UK

My Experience: From my passion of helping others, I worked for the Castle Point Citizens Advice Bureau helping service users with Homelessness, Housing, Divorce & Family Disputes in my role as a Case Worker This work then led me into training to become a Counsellor under Victoria Training and Counselling, Southend-on-sea. My training has led me to counsel for: -UK’s leading Mental Health Charity: Mind -Domestic Abuse Charity: Women’s Aid -Trauma Therapist at Renew  -Freelance Trauma Therapist for Children’s Social Care Southend Council -Counsellor at Sweyne Park School in Rayleigh, Essex for Pupils and Parents. I currently facilitate social, emotional and behavioural groups at the school with the alternative provision well-being lead.  I have an enhanced DBS and I am registered on the update service  Talking therapy alone is unlikely to stop PTSD, Anxiety or associated symptoms such as avoidance of a place, hyper-vigilance and/ or obsessional thinking. An example: A young soldier is sent off to war, he sees a petrol bomb go off causing terrible devastation. He finds a place to hide in terror, as more bombs go off. The soldier returns home, a few years later he passes his driving test and fills his car with petrol for the 1st time…what might happen when he smells the petrol. He might suddenly re-experience the exact same set of feelings/ bodily sensations and thoughts he had as a soldier & runs to hide. PTSD & Anxiety symptoms's run in a part of the brain linking to our senses. If you have experienced Anxiety/ PTSD, you will understand personally, Anxiety/ PTSD symptoms form in the body: i.e. having a Racing Heart, Sweating, Tense Muscles, Being Hyper-vigilant, Feeling Hot or Cold. Depending on different traumatic experiences, our animal instinct/ survival mode will lead us to:  Fight; Anger/ DefendFreeze; Numbness/ Can’t move                Flight; Escape/ FleeFawn; Please an abuser to stay safe When dealing with Trauma, therapy should cater to working with our survival responses; The sympathetic nervous system -known also as Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn. Our nervous system responses link to being triggered to Traumatic/ Fearful/ Painful memories even if it’s unconscious. NLP, EFT with EMDR 9 Gamut and Elements of Hypnosis are all specialist techniques that cater to treat Trauma/ PTSD, Anxiety and associated Depression. The above therapies get results fast and without re-traumatisation. I have had many difficulties in life and truly understand what it’s like to struggle emotionally, especially with social anxiety and trauma. This has given me the ability to be deeply empathetic and my clients often relay how they feel safe to be themselves with me and feel very listened to and understood.  I was diagnosed aged 13 with ADHD (Inattentive and Hyperactive), Discalcular and Dyspraxia. I understand neuro diversity on a personal level and can help with associated anxiety that comes with having behavioural and learning difficulties.

Abuse ADHD Affairs and betrayals Anger management Anxiety Asperger's syndrome Autism Avoidant personality disorder Behaviour problems Bereavement Bipolar disorder Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) Borderline personality disorder (BPD) Bullying Career counselling Carer support Child counselling Childhood bereavement Childhood bullying Children’s learning difficulties Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME Dependent personality disorder Depression Depression and anxiety in children Disabilities Discrimination Dissociation Domestic abuse Eating disorders Emotional abuse Family issues Feeling sad Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) Health anxiety High sensitivity HIV/AIDS Hoarding Learning difficulties LGBTQ+ counselling Loneliness Low self-confidence Low self-esteem Miscarriage Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder Panic attacks Passive-aggressive behaviour Personality disorders Phobias Physical abuse Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Postnatal depression Racism Redundancy Relationship problems Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) Self-harm Separation and divorce Separation anxiety Sexual abuse Social anxiety Spirituality Stress Suicidal thoughts Trauma Work-related stress Young carers

Cognitive and behavioural therapies Psychoanalytical and psychodynamic Humanistic therapies Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) Psychodynamic therapy Person-centred therapy Gestalt therapy Transactional analysis Existential therapy Integrative EMDR Mindfulness Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) Solution focused brief therapy Other therapies

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Emma Litman

Counsellor

England

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Preteen , Teen , Adults , Elders (65+)

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Attachment-based Coaching Cognitive Behavioural (CBT) EMDR Guided Regression Humanistic Integrative Neuro-Linguistic (NLP) Person-Centred Psychodynamic Relational Somatic Transactional Analysis

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