About Emily
Emily Mayback is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 13 years of experience in the helping professions. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, substance use, and major life transitions. Her style is warm and interactive and she centers the person's own knowledge about their life when planning sessions.
Emily uses short-term and skills-based methods alongside listening and reflection. She often combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is used when substance use or ambivalence about change shows up. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. Emily works to clarify what matters most, then sets small steps to build confidence and track progress.
She helps people manage panic, reduce worry, cope with grief, and navigate relationship or parenting strain. Her background includes more than a decade supporting people with addiction, trauma, and mood concerns. The approach is practical - building coping skills, changing patterns that keep problems going, and using simple mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity.
She explains techniques in everyday language and practices them together in session. Emily balances active coaching with empathic listening so clients feel seen and guided. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Sessions are arranged after a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step.
How Emily’s approaches fit into online therapy
Emily often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy in sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm the nervous system, which is useful for worry, panic, and coping with strong emotions.Choosing the right method is a team effort. Emily will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try approaches that match those needs. She adapts techniques as progress is made and checks in regularly so clients help shape the plan.
Online formats make it easier to fit work on mental health into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and practice of skills together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, and on-the-go coaching between sessions. These options aim to make consistent care more flexible and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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