About Emily
Emily Shiers is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on anxiety and related concerns. She brings two decades of experience and a calm, practical approach to conversations. She speaks plainly and helps people break problems into manageable steps.
Emily often works with adults facing parenting pressures, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. She supports people coping with stress, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship strain. She also has experience helping people connected to child protective services who are working toward reunification.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first to understand each person's situation and goals. She then tailors conversation and a plan to fit what will be most helpful. The work can include learning coping skills, rethinking patterns, and practicing new ways to handle difficult moments.
Her background includes long-term clinical work in Mississippi and practice with people who have complex presentations such as mood disorders and psychosis. Emily emphasizes respect and sensitivity in every step of care. She aims to make the process feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
People who choose her often want straightforward, actionable support for anxiety, parenting stress, life transitions, or substance concerns. She offers a steady presence and practical strategies to help people move toward clearer days ahead.
Approaches that guide online support
Emily draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and problem solving. One approach emphasizes teaching concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breath work, grounding exercises, and step-by-step plans to manage worry. This helps when anxious thoughts feel overwhelming and interfere with daily tasks.Another common thread in her work is behavioral change strategies that break larger goals into small, doable steps. These techniques help with mood, motivation, addiction recovery, and making steady progress after major life changes. They are practical and aimed at improving everyday functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Emily collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most, so the plan evolves with the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper check-ins, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and follow-ups simple to fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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