About Emily
Emily Johnson is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and traumatic experiences. She draws on a decade of practical experience to support clients through difficult moments. Her style is collaborative and straightforward, aimed at building small, realistic steps forward.
She helps people address eating concerns, body image struggles, and patterns tied to obsessions or compulsions. Emily also works with those facing depression, grief, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Phobias and social anxiety are included among the specific issues she addresses. Her approach mixes well-known techniques with a focus on what each person needs in the moment. She uses tools that teach practical skills for managing intense feelings and handling upsetting thoughts.
Sessions often focus on short-term goals and clear strategies people can try between meetings. Emily believes clients know their stories best and brings curiosity rather than judgment. She aims to create a space where people can test new ways of coping and notice what helps.
Progress is usually built one step at a time, with adjustments as needs change. In sessions she emphasizes concrete skills and problem-solving alongside attention to personal values. The goal is to reduce overwhelming symptoms while helping people reconnect with what matters to them.
Work is paced to match each person’s readiness and comfort level.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when hard emotions appear. It emphasizes noticing thoughts without getting stuck and choosing actions that match personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with practical experiments. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, phobias, and low mood through step-by-step behavior changes. Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on helping people process traumatic memories and reduce their hold over daily life, often combining safety skills and gradual exposure to difficult material.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will listen to your concerns, try methods that fit your goals, and adjust over time. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps you feel better and function more comfortably day to day.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging helps people keep progress going between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family routines while keeping the same therapeutic tools and goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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