About Emily
Emily Foister is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can try right away. Her goal is to help people rebuild confidence and find hope when life feels overwhelming.
She works with people who are coping with trauma or abuse and with those facing problems like low self-esteem, isolation, or feeling stuck.
Background and approach
Emily also helps people navigate attachment struggles, blended family tensions, and communication or commitment concerns. She approaches these issues by breaking them into manageable parts and teaching skills that fit daily life. Sessions tend to be hands-on and interactive.
Emily uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients understand their reactions, reduce anxiety, and change unhelpful patterns. She emphasizes building practical coping tools for moments of stress and impulsivity, and practices that support recovery from drug or alcohol addiction. People who come for help can expect a straightforward conversation about what matters most to them.
Emily helps clients set small, clear goals and track progress over time. She supports work on guilt, shame, body image, and forgiveness in ways that connect to everyday routines. Emily is licensed in Indiana as an LMHC, and she offers sessions in English.
Her background includes long-term clinical experience guiding people through loss, disaster-related stress, first responder concerns, and domestic violence recovery. She aims to help each person find steps forward that feel doable.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Emily uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and stress. One common approach focuses on learning specific coping skills for anxiety - breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations - to reduce avoidance and worry. Another approach emphasizes behavior change and relapse prevention for people working through drug or alcohol addiction, teaching strategies to handle triggers and build supportive routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options with each client and choose methods that match their goals, needs, and daily life. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress is made so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy provides several practical benefits. Video calls let people keep visual connection and read nonverbal cues while meeting from a convenient location. Phone sessions offer an easier, lower-bandwidth option when video isn't possible. Live chat and text-based messaging support check-ins between sessions, short updates, and flexible communication during busy days. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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