For almost 20 years, Emily has worked with teenagers, adults, and families as
a counselor/therapist. Emily highly values working with people from diverse
cultural backgrounds, people of color, and the LGBTQIA+ community. During
her career, Emily has helped clients navigating depression, anxiety, self-
motivation, trauma, self-harm, grief, familial relations, gender identity, sexual
identity, sexual/relationship needs, communication in relationships,
understanding one’s identity, and self-integration.
Emily is a Maryland Approved Supervisor for LGPC’s and is a Clinical Director
at CCG. Leading a team of highly skilled and passionate therapists, Emily
loves passing along knowledge and help support clinicians in the field. Along
with individual therapy, Emily provides couples and family therapy and has
experience working with families who have been through the foster care
system, adoption, and with parents of teens in a wilderness/partial
hospitalization/intensive out-patient program. Emily counsels parents who are
navigating their child’s gender identity and how to best parent and support
them. Emily provides couples therapy for areas of stronger communication,
changes in relationship dynamics, open relationships, and queer parents
starting the parenting journey.
Emily has been co-leading a DBT skills group for teens and parents at CCG
with Nicole Fayard since 2017. Emily began her journey in 2016 extensively
learning DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and incorporates this skill-work
into her sessions. Emily is currently applying for her full DBT Linehan
Certification. Emily has also completed training in Accelerated Resolution
Therapy (ART) Level 1 and Level 2. Emily has completed trainings in Child
Centered Play Therapy, DBT for adolescents, DBT Adherence and
Attachment Styles in Relationships.
A certified yoga teacher from Skyhouse Yoga Studio in Silver Spring, Emily
believes in incorporating healing movement and breath work into sessions.
Emily is a proud member of Soul Soil Healing Collective and Maker’s Lab DC
(founded by Lee Livingston Perine) which builds and supports queer
communities by creating spaces that celebrate life, art, and queer culture.
Counseling is helpful during a hard time and can be something we come back
to when we need support or a tune-up. Self-care is a daily act and Emily’s
belief is that counseling can help jump start our self-care routine. We all
deserve to be heard, to understand our feelings, and to speak our truth.