More About Emily

My interest in therapy grew from knowing how powerful it can be to feel understood without having to hide, perform, or make yourself easier for someone else. My own experiences with anxiety, depression, and feeling different also shaped my interest in identity, belonging, and the ways people adapt in order to feel safe or connected.

I’m warm, relational, curious, and direct. I care about insight, but I’m also interested in what happens when you already understand the pattern and still find yourself stuck in it. I may gently challenge avoidance, over-accommodation, self-abandonment, or familiar relationship patterns, while also making room for humor, uncertainty, and ordinary human messiness.

Challenges with relationships, work, loss, health, family, money, aging, the state of the world, and whatever you’re carrying are all welcome here. Life can be complicated and sometimes just too much. We can start with what is actually here. Therapy with me can be serious, funny, expressive, awkward, quiet, or some combination of all of it.

I’ve spent many years training in different ways of understanding attachment, relationships, the nervous system, and the parts of us that develop to help us get through difficult things. I don’t use one formula with everyone. I pay attention to the person in front of me and to what seems useful moment to moment.

I bring both training and lived experience into the room, and I don’t see therapy as one person having all the answers. I feel it is our collaboration that is the medicine.