Emma is a Chartered Health Psychologist. Her applied coaching work focuses on health and lifestyle issues, supporting clients in self-regulation and health management behaviours, whilst her academic work addresses a broader coaching base. Emma is committed to widening participation in education and employment and has provided services as a consultant to national charities whose work is focused in this area.

Emma’s work at the University of Bedfordshire includes the development and delivery of undergraduate and post graduate courses in Psychology. Her areas of specialised teaching are in coaching, counselling, health and some areas of forensic psychology. Most recently she has initiated an undergraduate coaching psychology module, which equips psychology undergraduates with the skills and knowledge to operate at pre-practitioner level.

She is committed to the aims of the SGCP and the further development of Coaching Psychology. Emma’s research is active in a number of areas, primarily she is involved in ongoing research designed to monitor and evaluate the training and process of coaching. She is committed to the continued development of standards and practice within the profession.