An Integrative Approach
Emily believes that she and her clients are a team. She uses her skills, talents, educational background, expertise, and intuition to identify what will work best with her clients and engage them in developing the best plan for them. She believes that all aspects of the human being need equal attention and balance. The mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual create an integrated whole, healthy, happy, joyful person. Emily believes that an imbalance in one area can create a ripple effect in all areas of one’s life, tending to all the puzzle pieces to benefit the whole.
Credentials & Education
17 years experience
Masters in Social Work, CSUEB
Masters in Spiritual Psychology, USM
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
Program development and facilitation certificate, USM
Bachelor of Arts and Communication, USF
Internship at UCSF Children’s Hospital
Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, The Integrative Psychiatric Institute
Trained in personal color analysis and color consulting
Consulting & Support:
Emily has joined forces with a Behavioral Health Crisis line while working on building her practice.
Working with Groups:
Developed a curriculum to facilitate interpersonal understanding and teaching at Kaiser Permanente to the Palliative Care/Geriatric Care fellows for 3 years.
Meeting the needs of the front-line workers by developing a curriculum for resilience and facilitating groups and programs.
Hospice & Grief:
Emily worked in hospice for nearly ten years and supported countless patients and their families in preparation and transition.
She facilitates grief support groups.
While passionate about this part of the life span, she understands the impacts of all health challenges on individuals and their families.
Strategy: Emily continues to focus on solutions to the Mental Health Crisis in the United States.
Focus
Emily focused her Master’s in Social Work education on transformative education. She believes wholeheartedly that you can’t give away something you don’t have and comes from the perspective that if she hasn’t tried something, she wouldn’t ask or guide her clients to do so. She believes you must understand practices by having gone through them yourself.
Potential
Emily has worked with individuals with many diverse challenges that hinder optimizing true potential. She firmly believes that at the core of every person is their essential essence: loving. By facilitating healing, she helps people access their joy, peace, and inspiration, ultimately helping people learn who they are and listen to themselves. She has experience working with people that struggle with depression, anxiety, stress, addiction, end-of-life, death, grief, transitions, and relationship challenges.
Advocacy
Emily advocates against mental health stigma and will openly speak of her own challenges. Knowledge is not enough, and Emily will provide helpful, tangible, interesting, and fun action steps for clients to help make shifts that are lasting.
Inspiration
As far back as she can remember, Emily has been interested in human behavior and understanding people’s actions, hearts, and inner worlds. As a teen, her interest in the human experience grew; her boyfriend’s mother was diagnosed with lung cancer and, within three months, died. This personal experience with illness, loss, grief, and finally, death hugely impacted her and propelled her to embrace life and ask questions; Why are we here? What is our purpose? How can we make a more meaningful contribution in our lifetime? What happens when we die? Emily’s exploration started young and continues.
In her free time, Emily enjoys learning new things. She spends much of her free time on creative outlets, specifically songwriting and painting. She also loves the outdoors, traveling, art, music, fashion, her family, her friends, and her cat. Emily is warm-hearted, easy to talk to, personable, and supportive.