Emma Berresford
Emma Berresford
B.A.Psych, M.App.Psych
Registered Psychologist
Emma is a warm, compassionate, and non-judgemental psychologist who adopts a collaborative strengths-based approach to support individuals in working towards their personal therapy goals. She has experience working with children, adolescents and adults in metro and regional locations in Western Australia within school, private practice and organisational settings. Emma is experienced in providing individual and group therapy in person and via telehealth, support through employee assistance programs (EAP), developed and facilitated psychoeducational workshops, consultancy and critical incident response.
Emma has a strong interest in supporting individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, adjustment difficulties, stress management, emotional regulation difficulties, interpersonal difficulties, grief and loss, and people who hear voices. She draws upon a range of therapeutic approaches including cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), solution focused therapy (SFT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based interventions, psychodynamic, motivational interviewing (MI), and functional behaviour assessment (FBA).
Emma runs her own independent private practice and engages Fremantle Clinical Psychology and Counselling to provide administrative and other business services to enable her to provide psychological support to her clients.