About Emily
Emily Keehn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four years of experience offering practical, trauma-informed care. She works with adults who are trying to manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and other life challenges. Emily draws on evidence-based methods to help people find clearer ways forward.
Emily brings a calm and direct style to sessions. She focuses on building a strong working relationship first. From that place she helps clients set realistic goals and practice skills that fit their daily life.
Background and approach
Her background includes experience with veterans, people with physical disabilities, and those rethinking religious beliefs. Emily uses DBT-informed and trauma-aware approaches to address emotional regulation and healing. She also integrates mindfulness and cognitive strategies to reduce worry and improve coping.
Sessions are collaborative and practical. Emily listens closely, offers feedback, and helps clients try tools between meetings. She pays attention to how stress shows up in work, relationships, and health.
Clients who connect with Emily usually want clear strategies and steady support. She helps people facing addiction, caregiver strain, chronic illness, relationship conflict, career decisions, or difficult life transitions. The aim is to build skills and clearer choices for daily life.
How Emily’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting pulled into them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT often helps with worry, depression, and building problem-solving habits. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose tools that fit their goals, needs, and what feels workable in daily life. That collaboration can include trying a few methods and adjusting as progress happens. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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