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Welcome to Friendship Therapy, the podcast in which we therapies some of the most influential relationships

we'll ever have in life. I'm Emmery Terrell, a psychotherapist and author, and I'm

here to help you understand the issues we all face in friendships, whether it's

the end of a friendship, the impact of major life events on our friendship groups, or the challenges of making new friends in later life.

Each week I'll be joined by a guest who comes to better understand their friendships and leaves with a better

understanding of themselves. Join the conversation and understand yourself and your friendships

better too.

Welcome back to Friendship Therapy and this week we are joined by the lovely Emma,

great name Emma.

I always like to start with that.

I just think, you know know we have immediate solidarity and

Emma has joined us to talk about all sorts of things about friendship and her experiences

of friendship but with a particular focus on how therapy affects friendship.

And I think partly that's because if I'm right, you are a therapist, Emma, is that correct?

Just tell us a little bit about the therapy that you do and what kind of therapist you are.

I'm an intensive therapist which means I kind of use a variety of models, whatever kind of works with the client I'm working with.

I'm also an EMDR therapist, so a lot of my work tends to kind of be focused on trauma.

I've only been qualified about four years where I was quite late to

coming to becoming a therapist. I sort of had a bit of a change in career I

suppose about six or seven years ago and and retrained to be a therapist.

So that was really exciting.

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