About Emily
Emily Kissner is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 12 years of experience. She holds a master's degree in art therapy from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and practices in Illinois. Emily brings an affirming, feminist perspective and a direct, down-to-earth way of working with people who are struggling.
She focuses on concerns such as family stress, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career changes, and coaching for life transitions.
Background and approach
She also supports issues including abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger Syndrome, avoidant personality tendencies, and body image. Emily is aware of kink, polyamory, and sex work contexts and incorporates that awareness into sessions when relevant. Her approach blends psychotherapy techniques with art therapy methods to help people build coping tools and increase self-understanding.
Sessions may include talking, practical exercises, and using creative materials to make feelings and patterns clearer. Emily emphasizes real-world skills that people can use between sessions. Clients can expect a collaborative process that looks at both personal history and current relationships.
She aims to help people notice patterns, practice new ways of responding, and set manageable goals. The work often moves at a practical pace focused on daily life. Emily offers services in English and accepts international clients.
People who want to begin can use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Emily combines psychotherapy techniques and art therapy methods to help people understand patterns and build skills. Psychotherapy techniques involve talking through thoughts and behaviors, trying small experiments, and practicing new ways of coping for issues like anxiety, trauma, and relationship difficulties. Art therapy uses drawing, collage, or other creative activities to help people notice feelings and patterns when words are hard to find; this can be useful for trauma processing, body image work, and exploring attachment experiences.Finding the right mix of methods is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try different approaches, and adjust as work continues. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods feel most helpful for day-to-day life and progress toward goals.
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Many people find online work helpful because it can fit into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and make it easier to check in during a lunch break or between commitments. Online conversations and creative tasks can be adapted to phone or video sessions depending on what the client prefers and what is available. Licensed professionals can tailor session length and activities to match a client's needs, making therapy practical for everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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