About Emily
Emily Goodyear is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who centers therapy on mindfulness and practical steps. She uses clear, direct guidance alongside compassion to help people navigate anxiety and other concerns. Sessions aim to build self-worth and a clearer sense of purpose in everyday life.
Emily has six years of counseling experience and has worked with many different concerns. These include anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and post-traumatic stress, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing life changes, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and body image. Her style combines client-centered care with mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas. She often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) tools to help people notice difficult thoughts and make values-based choices.
Sessions are collaborative, with practical exercises and chance to talk through what matters most. Emily also addresses issues around adoption and foster care, attachment, codependency, dissociation, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns, then works with clients to build different ways of relating and coping.
Emily works with people by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. She aims to make changes feel manageable and relevant to everyday life. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that align with their values. This approach is often used for anxiety, stress, and situations where someone wants clearer direction in life.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding and shifting emotional responses in relationships and within oneself. It can help people who struggle with intimacy-related issues, attachment worries, or patterns that lead to disconnection.
Emily will work together with each person to find the right mix of approaches. She listens to goals and preferences, tries different techniques, and adjusts the plan so sessions feel relevant and manageable. That collaborative process helps identify what actually produces useful change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging lets people check in between sessions or use a shorter format. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, parenting, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist commonly address?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What session formats are available online?
How does cost and billing work?
How do I get started with therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.