About BEmet
Specialist resources for emetophobia, from someone who understands how isolating it can feel.
Why BEmet exists
Finding good support for emetophobia is harder than it should be. Few therapists have specialist training in this kind of fear, and few of the people around you, friends and family included, really get what it's like to live with. That can leave you feeling alone with something that already feels isolating. BEmet adds another specialist voice, for anyone who hasn't yet found one that fits.
Emetophobia is also easily misunderstood. Unless you've lived with it, it's hard to grasp how much of life it can take up, from food to travel to the plans you make, or the ones you don't. No two people experience it the same way either, so being met as a whole person matters more than anything.
What BEmet is, and what it isn't
What it is
- Free resources, guides and practices you can use in your own time
- Research and writing about emetophobia specifically, not general anxiety
- Training and consultancy for therapists and other professionals
- A calm place to understand the fear and find your footing
What it isn't
- A therapy service, and not a replacement for one
- Medical advice, or a substitute for your GP or another clinician
- An emergency service
- Anything that will show you graphic images or video
If you're looking for one-to-one emetophobia therapy, online across the UK or in person in Birmingham, Caroline offers that separately through Caroline Cowley Counselling.
The thinking behind it
BEmet is person-centred and pluralistic. It starts with people, not problems. There's no single right way through emetophobia, and what helps depends on you, your history, and what you need right now.
It also rests on the understanding that emetophobia makes sense. It's a protective response, your system doing its best to keep you safe, that learned somewhere along the way to treat this one thing as a serious threat. Seeing how that happens, and what keeps it going, is often where change begins: not only in how you think about the fear, but in how it feels to move through your day.
You choose the pace
Nothing here autoplays or ambushes you. The site talks about emetophobia plainly, including the words around being unwell, but you decide what you read and when.
Who's behind it
Caroline Cowley
Caroline is an emetophobia specialist and counsellor with personal as well as professional experience of the fear. She created BEmet to bring together resources for people living with emetophobia and the families who love them, alongside training for therapists and others working in education and healthcare.
- BACP-registered therapist
- Working with adults and young people over 16
- Experienced researcher and trainer
Whatever has brought you here, and however long you've lived with this, you're welcome exactly as you are. BEmet is here whenever you're ready, somewhere to breathe out a little.