About Emily
Emily Mckillip, LPCC, focuses on practical, evidence-based care for people struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, and trauma. She writes in plain terms and aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful. Sessions are created to meet each person where they are and move toward clearer coping and healthier routines.
Emily draws on a range of proven techniques to tailor work to individual needs. She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Motivational strategies help people facing substance use or slips in momentum find reasons to keep going. Somatic-informed methods can help when stress and trauma show up in the body rather than only the mind.
With eight years of experience as a licensed professional clinical counselor in California, Emily supports people dealing with anxiety, mood concerns, addiction, identity questions, and the fallout of past abuse. She also helps with attachment and abandonment worries, communication problems, feelings of emptiness, and issues around impulsivity and guilt. Emily prefers a straightforward, compassionate style.
She listens first, then works with clients to set practical goals and step-by-step plans. Therapy sessions can include skill practice, short experiments, values-based planning, or grounding exercises to reduce distress in the moment. People work with Emily by using online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She offers care in English and works within a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How Emily’s approaches work online and in sessions
Emily uses several evidence-based techniques in everyday language so people can use them right away. Cognitive-behavioral methods look at thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and change patterns that keep problems going. Motivational strategies help when someone feels stuck or is working on substance use by focusing on personal reasons for change and building momentum.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Emily starts by listening to what matters most to the client, then suggests techniques that fit their goals and daily life. She adjusts methods over time, checking in about what helps and what needs to shift, so care stays collaborative and goal-directed.
Online formats offer practical benefits for this work. Video calls let the therapist and client interact face to face for skills practice and deeper conversational work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, ongoing skill reminders, or shorter coaching-style contacts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches that best match the person's needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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