About Emily
Emily Vaughan is a licensed professional clinical counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what is most pressing for each person. Emily aims to make the first steps toward change feel achievable rather than overwhelming.
She uses a mix of practical tools and conversation. Sessions often include thought work, skill-building, and mindfulness exercises that people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is struggling with addiction or ambivalence about change. Emily draws on nearly two decades of clinical experience to tailor the plan to a person’s needs. She pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and issues around self-esteem and identity.
She also supports people facing chronic pain or caregiving burdens. Her approach is collaborative and client-centered. That means the person’s values and goals shape each session.
Emily offers concrete steps and gentle challenges to help people test new habits and notice progress. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Emily practices from Kentucky as an LPCC and works with people who want steady, practical help for anxiety, depression, addictions, and life transitions.
How Emily blends practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help people who feel stuck by shifting the focus from eliminating symptoms to building a meaningful life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete techniques to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it provides clear skills to practice between sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person’s goals lead the work. This approach supports people who need space to explore values, identity, or relationship concerns and prefer a collaborative pace.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. Emily will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest methods to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy lets people access these approaches by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or texting can support shorter check-ins, daily practice prompts, or on-the-go reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving schedules, and busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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