About Emily
Emily Wiley is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in Ohio. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or big life changes. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at practical progress rather than jargon.
With three years of clinical experience, she works with people facing relationship struggles, intimacy concerns, and trauma or abuse aftermath. She also supports those dealing with sleeping or eating difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, and career transitions.
Background and approach
Emily pays attention to how past attachments and experiences shape current reactions. Sessions emphasize clear skills and steady support. She helps clients build resilience, improve communication, and manage strong feelings like guilt or shame.
Practical tools and small behavior changes are offered alongside space to talk through painful memories. Emily also attends to issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, autism and Asperger syndrome, and challenges linked to intellectual disability. She notices the impact of isolation, compassion fatigue, and military-related concerns when they appear.
People who want a therapist that balances empathy with action tend to fit well with her approach. She favors simple, teachable techniques that can be practiced between sessions. The aim is steady progress toward more satisfying relationships and a calmer daily life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Emily uses evidence-based techniques that focus on building coping skills and processing difficult experiences. One common approach she uses teaches practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, like breath work, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations; these tools help reduce avoidance and improve day-to-day functioning. Another approach centers on processing past hurt and attachment wounds by helping people name memories, understand patterns, and try new ways of relating to others to reduce shame and isolation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, preferences, and how you respond to different techniques, and then adjust the plan over time so it fits your needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility that many people find helpful. Video calls let sessions feel more like in-person meetings while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, quick skill reminders, or a way to process between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent work on anxiety and related concerns into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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