Hello, I am Emily and I am a licensed mental health counselor in Florida and Tennessee. I am passionate about helping others and seek to provide a safe place for exploration, healing, and empowerment. I am relational, compassionate, and strengths focused. I offer a space free of judgement to explore self, process experiences, and gain confidence. I specialize in identity work. This includes finding who you are when you go to college and are out on your own for the first time, exploring sexuality and gender, reconsidering values and beliefs, finding self after loss, and figuring out who you are in and outside relationships.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In your first session, we will explore what your goals are and determine the best ways to help you make progress.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I am strengths-based, non-judgmental, kind, curious, and collaborative. Throughout treatment, I am open to feedback and switching gears as needed to obtain your goals so you feel like you are getting the most out of our sessions together.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
If you are facing church hurt, exploring identity, in a life transition, having relationship struggles, working on communication, grieving, struggling with anxiety or depression, needing to set boundaries, or wanting a regular check in for yourself, I would love to work with you!
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Internal Family Systems (IFS)
I utilize parts work to help you explore different parts of yourself and how they protect and form who you are at your core. IFS is nonpathologizing and operates from an understanding that each part is doing its best and wants to protect and better you. With this, we can honor why each part responds the way it does and explore what is helpful to you now versus what was once helpful. The goal of IFS is to unburden and heal wounds.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to give skills inside and outside of therapy. We will use thought checking to aid in better patterns that lessen anxiety. We will also identify and push back against cognitive distortions. By reframing thinking, challenging negative beliefs, understanding the link between thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, and learning skills, we will improve emotional regulation.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
We will use mindfulness, meditation, and breathing exercises to increase regulation and give you skills to use inside and outside of therapy.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
We will examine what is contributing to stuckness, identify values so you can work towards a life you value, incorporate mindfulness, and increase flexibility.