Emma Highfield became enchanted with narrative ideas during a workshop delivered by Hugh Fox as part of her Foundation in Systemic Family Therapy in 2014. This led to her excitement to know more and her journey to learn, immerse herself in the ideas, develop her practice and become a narrative therapist.

Emma completed the Diploma in Narrative Therapy with Int in 2021. Emma is a registered nurse in mental health and has worked in the NHS for over 30 years. She weaves narrative approaches into her work in systems where stories of disorder are dominant, distress is pathologised and teams become saturated with hopelessness and fatigue.

Emma is passionate about reducing restrictive practices, helping those who are out of sight (in terms of how they are cared for) and supporting the linking of lives and amplification of voices standing against exclusion, marginalisation and human rights breaches.  Emma also delivers a small amount of work outside of the NHS in teaching, supervision, and narrative therapy.