About Emily
Emily Meyers, LPC, LMHC offers a grounded, body-aware approach to therapy. She blends talk therapy with somatic and creative methods to help people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. Her style is calm and curious, aimed at helping clients regain trust in their feelings and bodies.
Meyers draws on 16 years of clinical experience in Missouri. She emphasizes gentle pacing and practical skills. Sessions focus on reducing intense stress responses and building everyday tools for managing emotions.
Background and approach
The work often includes breath, movement, or expressive exercises alongside conversation. She helps people facing trauma, chronic illness, and high sensitivity. People also come for support with anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, ADHD, relationship stress, grief, and life transitions.
Meyers pays attention to how past experiences affect current behavior and relationships. Her approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, emotionally-focused methods, and a client-centered stance. This combination lets her tailor sessions to what each person needs in the moment.
Therapy includes goal-focused exercises as well as space for processing feelings. Meyers works with practical change and inner exploration. She offers concrete coping tools for panic, phobias, and overwhelm while also addressing deeper attachment or abandonment wounds.
Sessions aim to increase self-trust, reduce reactivity, and restore connection to joy. Clients who prefer an engaged, creative, and somatic-informed therapist may find her style helpful. The emphasis is on steady progress at a comfortable pace and on building skills that fit everyday life.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting locked into them and then take action guided by personal values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and change behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for regulating intense emotions and improving distress tolerance in moments of crisis.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then adapt methods together. This collaborative process makes it easier to try techniques and adjust them if they do not fit.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection and visual cues, phone sessions can be quicker or easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between visits.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Washington
- Languages
- English
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