About Emily
Emily Nielsen is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety, handle life changes, and improve communication. She uses a respectful, strengths-based approach and aims to meet each person where they are.
Emily keeps sessions practical and direct. She helps clients build clearer boundaries, manage anger, and work through grief and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people dealing with career stress, self-esteem struggles, and the pain that follows relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
Her work combines warm listening with tools that people can use between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques are used to notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses. She also draws on client-centered principles to shape each session around the client's priorities.
Emily pays attention to family of origin patterns, attachment questions, and blended family challenges when those issues affect current relationships. She guides people coping with caregiving stress, codependency, commitment questions, and the aftermath of separation or divorce. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Emily helps people set concrete goals and practice skills that feel doable in daily life. Her aim is to help clients feel more capable, connected, and steady as they move forward.
Approaches for online care and how they help
Client-centered therapy focuses on warm, nonjudgmental listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. It helps people clarify goals and feel heard while they try new ways of coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going and teaches practical techniques to shift them. It is often used for worry, low mood, and habit changes.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the problems you want to solve, then suggest techniques and try methods that fit. Clients and the therapist review progress and adjust the plan so work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Video lets you meet face to face; phone can work when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat or messaging can suit short updates, ongoing coaching, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make scheduling easier and let people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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