About Emily
Emily Vaughan, LPCC, offers straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. She focuses on practical steps you can take now to feel steadier and more capable. Emily talks in plain language and aims to make sessions feel manageable for busy lives.
With 19 years of experience, she guides people who are coping with addictions, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also helps with parenting strain, career stress, and self-esteem struggles.
Background and approach
Emily pays attention to issues like attachment wounds, abandonment, and codependency that often show up alongside those concerns. Her work combines hands-on tools and listening. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small actions that matter. Sessions are shaped to each person's needs rather than following a single script. Emily emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while keeping goals concrete.
She encourages practical experiments between sessions so people can test what works in everyday life. People who reach out can expect calm, direct conversations that move toward clear next steps. Emily aims to empower clients to regain confidence, handle triggers more easily, and create realistic plans for change.
How Emily’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions by focusing on action over trying to eliminate discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses short experiments to change patterns that maintain distress. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and habit changes.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Emily will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. That collaborative planning means tools are tested and adjusted based on what actually helps in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make participation easier. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and eye contact, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or reflections between meetings. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and practical needs while keeping the focus on usable strategies and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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