About Emily

My professional life has never followed a straight line — and I think that's part of what makes this work feel the way it does.

After my degree I worked in an American private bank, where I saw the psychological pressures beneath high-performance environments close-up. I later built and ran a clinical aromatherapy practice — and it was there that something became clear: clients came back not just for the treatment, but for the space to think things through. The psychological support that had quietly become part of the work was, for many, its most valuable part.

That realisation shaped everything that followed.

Since then I have continued to study formally and independently across psychology, therapeutic practice, and coaching — including Jungian-informed approaches, hypnotherapy, and NLP. Alongside this, I built an internationally recognised jewellery practice, creating pieces for a global client base including public figures.

Across all of it, one thread has stayed constant: a fascination with how people think, how identity is shaped, and what lies beneath what's presented. I was captivated by this from childhood, and every chapter since has deepened it.

Alongside the formal training, what shapes the work most is the quality of attention brought to each conversation. People often arrive carrying questions or patterns they have been living with for a long time — sometimes only partly understood, sometimes never voiced quite this way before. Things often begin to make more sense when there is space to think properly, and the work develops from there.

Although The Emily Gray Practice is the formal home for this work, the work itself is not new to me. For as long as I can remember, friends, family and colleagues have often turned to me when they needed space to think things through or make sense of a situation. What has changed is not the work, but the decision to offer it openly, and to give it the focus it deserves.

I created this practice because I know, from my own experience, what it means to move through real uncertainty and come out the other side with greater clarity about who you are and what you want. That understanding sits quietly beneath everything I do.

I live in England with my husband, Felix. Our daughter is reading English Literature at Durham; our son is at school in Malvern.