About Emily
Emily Dove is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with an MD who helps adults who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or depression. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns and challenges in relationships. Emily aims to make the first steps into therapy less intimidating by keeping conversations grounded and straightforward.
She uses practical, evidence-based methods to help clients notice patterns that keep problems going. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and managing emotions in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Emily pays attention to issues such as attachment, body image, codependency, and control struggles. Her work also addresses obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, guilt and shame, and dependent personality patterns. She seeks to help people break unhelpful cycles and regain a sense of choice about how they respond.
Treatment plans are shaped around each person's concerns and goals. Emily brings three years of clinical experience and holds credentials as MD, LCSW-C, and LCSW. She practices from Maryland and conducts sessions in English.
Her style is collaborative and direct, with a focus on practical tools people can use between sessions. People who want clear steps and steady support often find value in her approach. Sessions are meant to help clients feel heard and to develop strategies that fit their everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Emily uses well-established, evidence-based techniques to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small, practical experiments to change behavior and reduce anxiety. Acceptance and commitment techniques teach how to notice difficult feelings, clarify personal values, and take actions that move toward those values even when emotions are uncomfortable.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and daily life. Adjustments happen over time based on what helps most and what feels doable.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Guilt and shame
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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