Meet Emily
Therapy is about relationship and who we are together as people. I don't think you can separate the person you are from the therapist you are. So rather than give you a polished professional biography, here are a few things that make me me—and shape how I show up with my clients.
1. I walk the walk.
I'm a therapist, but I don't put on a therapist mask when I come to work. I'm boundaried and professional, of course, but I also show up as myself. I practice mindfulness, embodiment, and the principles of PACT in my own life and marriage—not because I have mastered them, but because I believe they are some of the best tools I know for navigating the humbling, beautiful, sometimes completely ridiculous business of being human.
I've done a lot of my own work, and I'm still doing it. I know what it's like to discover that understanding something intellectually isn't the same as being able to live it. I know what it's like to have to look honestly at my own patterns, take responsibility, and try something different.
That's the place I want to meet you from: not above you, and not pretending to have life figured out, but as someone who knows this territory and can help you explore your own.
2. I'm a mom.
I have two daughters I love beyond anything I have ever known. They are also two of my greatest teachers—and they have a remarkable ability to expose whatever unfinished business I thought I'd already dealt with.
Parenting has deepened my understanding of attachment in ways I couldn't have anticipated. It has also made me much more interested in what happens when our oldest patterns get activated: what we reach for, what we defend against, what we learned about love and connection early on, and what we may want to do differently now.
I don't offer parenting advice. What I do bring is the perspective of someone who knows that being in a long-term relationship, raising a family, and trying to remain yourself in the middle of it all can be both deeply meaningful and really hard.
3. I love the earth.
I have spent thousands of nights sleeping on the ground.
For ten years, I lived, worked, and taught outdoors year-round in the deserts and mountains of Utah, Wyoming, Oregon, and California. I learned to pay attention—to weather, landscape, other people, my own body, and the things that become obvious when you are far enough away from your usual routines and distractions.
That experience is woven into who I am. I believe there is something powerful about getting out of our heads and back into direct experience: noticing what is happening in your body, paying attention to what is around you, slowing down enough to hear what you actually think and feel.
You don't have to be an outdoors person to work with me. But I bring that relationship with the natural world into my work, and sometimes it becomes part of the work itself.
So, what am I like to work with?
I'm direct, warm, curious, and deeply involved in my own life. I have a good tolerance for discomfort, I don't scare easily, and I don't believe in pretending that people—or relationships—are tidier than they actually are.
I'll laugh with you. I'll challenge you when I think it might help. I'll stay with you when things get hard. And I won't pretend I have a formula for your life.
If that sounds like the kind of therapist you're looking for, you've come to the right place.
1. I walk the walk.
I'm a therapist, but I don't put on a therapist mask when I come to work. I'm boundaried and professional, of course, but I also show up as myself. I practice mindfulness, embodiment, and the principles of PACT in my own life and marriage—not because I have mastered them, but because I believe they are some of the best tools I know for navigating the humbling, beautiful, sometimes completely ridiculous business of being human.
I've done a lot of my own work, and I'm still doing it. I know what it's like to discover that understanding something intellectually isn't the same as being able to live it. I know what it's like to have to look honestly at my own patterns, take responsibility, and try something different.
That's the place I want to meet you from: not above you, and not pretending to have life figured out, but as someone who knows this territory and can help you explore your own.
2. I'm a mom.
I have two daughters I love beyond anything I have ever known. They are also two of my greatest teachers—and they have a remarkable ability to expose whatever unfinished business I thought I'd already dealt with.
Parenting has deepened my understanding of attachment in ways I couldn't have anticipated. It has also made me much more interested in what happens when our oldest patterns get activated: what we reach for, what we defend against, what we learned about love and connection early on, and what we may want to do differently now.
I don't offer parenting advice. What I do bring is the perspective of someone who knows that being in a long-term relationship, raising a family, and trying to remain yourself in the middle of it all can be both deeply meaningful and really hard.
3. I love the earth.
I have spent thousands of nights sleeping on the ground.
For ten years, I lived, worked, and taught outdoors year-round in the deserts and mountains of Utah, Wyoming, Oregon, and California. I learned to pay attention—to weather, landscape, other people, my own body, and the things that become obvious when you are far enough away from your usual routines and distractions.
That experience is woven into who I am. I believe there is something powerful about getting out of our heads and back into direct experience: noticing what is happening in your body, paying attention to what is around you, slowing down enough to hear what you actually think and feel.
You don't have to be an outdoors person to work with me. But I bring that relationship with the natural world into my work, and sometimes it becomes part of the work itself.
So, what am I like to work with?
I'm direct, warm, curious, and deeply involved in my own life. I have a good tolerance for discomfort, I don't scare easily, and I don't believe in pretending that people—or relationships—are tidier than they actually are.
I'll laugh with you. I'll challenge you when I think it might help. I'll stay with you when things get hard. And I won't pretend I have a formula for your life.
If that sounds like the kind of therapist you're looking for, you've come to the right place.