About Emily
Emily Magusiak is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with ten years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, and low self-esteem.
Emily works with concerns related to parenting, adoption and foster care, and caregiver strain. Emily uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. She treats symptoms like impulsivity, anger, and relationship conflict with clear steps and real-world strategies.
Background and approach
For people navigating fertility loss, maternity loss, or separation, she mixes compassionate listening with goal-focused planning. Her background includes work with adults and children, including people with intellectual and developmental disorders. Emily brings a decade of clinical experience to each session and draws on approaches shown to help with mood, anxiety, and trauma-related problems.
She values the strengths clients already have and centers sessions on what matters to them. Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Emily will help clients set small, achievable goals and practice new skills between meetings.
She encourages questions and checks in often so progress stays on track. Emily offers therapy in English and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Emily draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on symptoms and real-life coping. One common approach uses structured skill building to manage anxiety and mood swings, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Another approach addresses trauma and grief by helping people process difficult memories and emotions at a pace they can tolerate, with exercises and homework to build resilience.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Emily collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. She adjusts tools over time and checks in about what is helping and what may need to change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera feels easier. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or ongoing conversation between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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